Briebee72
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I know I know we all have different hang ups and when I borough this up to some people before they immediately go to google cut and paste something that it was used once in 1856 as some blah blah blah blah... Point is. Man does it not sound like nails on a chalk board and unintelligent when people say it? I swear up until about maybe the beginning of the year I hardly heard it used and now its like its the cool thing to say, its everywhere.
Here is an example of what I mean
I never did understand numbers very well. Anyways , I’ve decided to move from financing into tech support.
OR
I never did understand numbers very well. Anyway , I’ve decided to move from financing into tech support.
See that S is so grating. it is non standard not correct and informal plus a anyway is an advert and cant be plural.
But anyway, LOL this is not my point to debate if its a word or not. My real concern is why has it now become so commonly used? It has almost replaced the proper form of the word. I can be reading a nice article in the paper and right smack in the middle is ANYWAYS ahhhhh,,,, its about as bad as people who say irregardless, it wasnt even a word. But now so many people say it, like anyways, its been added to the dictionary????? Why do we add non standard obviously wrong words to our language instead of getting people to speak properly?
Those two words among many, are considered nonstandard words now. A non standard word is defined by Webster as:
"When a word is nonstandard it means it is “not conforming in pronunciation, grammatical construction, idiom, or word choice to the usage generally characteristic of educated native speakers of a language.”
I guess my concern is, and the real point of my post (anyways was just an example), why do we not teach people properly the things they need to know instead of just accepting them and incorporating them into our society? Its like going backwards.
My next topic will be people who smoke telling me my energy drink is bad for my health LOL
Here is an example of what I mean
I never did understand numbers very well. Anyways , I’ve decided to move from financing into tech support.
OR
I never did understand numbers very well. Anyway , I’ve decided to move from financing into tech support.
See that S is so grating. it is non standard not correct and informal plus a anyway is an advert and cant be plural.
But anyway, LOL this is not my point to debate if its a word or not. My real concern is why has it now become so commonly used? It has almost replaced the proper form of the word. I can be reading a nice article in the paper and right smack in the middle is ANYWAYS ahhhhh,,,, its about as bad as people who say irregardless, it wasnt even a word. But now so many people say it, like anyways, its been added to the dictionary????? Why do we add non standard obviously wrong words to our language instead of getting people to speak properly?
Those two words among many, are considered nonstandard words now. A non standard word is defined by Webster as:
"When a word is nonstandard it means it is “not conforming in pronunciation, grammatical construction, idiom, or word choice to the usage generally characteristic of educated native speakers of a language.”
I guess my concern is, and the real point of my post (anyways was just an example), why do we not teach people properly the things they need to know instead of just accepting them and incorporating them into our society? Its like going backwards.
My next topic will be people who smoke telling me my energy drink is bad for my health LOL
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