I just picked up a prescription at the drive-through window. The
mass-produced
Yield sign said
Caution
Pedestians
Walking
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
"Did they go to the zoo? Supposably."
Oh no, they got Dana.
Pedestians Walking
Hee!
"Did they go to the zoo? Supposably."
FIRST THING that popped in my mind.
Supposably sounds like one of the soft mouthed characters from Fat Albert. It makes me crazy. And since I can be the tinpot dictator of my classroom, I tell kids to NOT say it, that it's a status marking error, same a double negative, that peoplewill make assumptions about their background and education if they do that.
Ahem.
see my big red button? it has supposably written right on it.
Supposably sounds like one of the soft mouthed characters from Fat Albert. It makes me crazy. And since I can be the tinpot dictator of my classroom, I tell kids to NOT say it, that it's a status marking error, same a double negative, that peoplewill make assumptions about their background and education if they do that.
Good. You're completely right.
I wish I got the "zoo, supposably" reference, but it flew right over my head.
Other grammar bete noires (picture the accents please) I think in my head and never articulate because so few people obey those rules: things like the misuse of hopefully.
But when there are status marking errors, and there are plenty, then I point those out because it's crazymaking for me to hear them and say nothing.
And what's great, my students do know them already and probably have since elementary school so they can fix them on their own without me explaining. It's just they so often don't.
So, would sticking in "whoms" where they don't belong be a reverse status marking error in that people would assume you know what you're talking about?
Isn't it really "betes noir"?
(I don't know. . . just extrapolating from something French. . . which I cannot remember.)
I wish I got the "zoo, supposably" reference, but it flew right over my head.
Friends.
Isn't it really "betes noir"?
Nope. Bêtes noirs. The adjective (noir, black) will need to agree with the noun (bêtes, beasts).