Coming or going?
Coming or going... this should be easy, but people usually get it wrong.Is there a rule in English explaining this? I don't know.
but, I do know COME to or GO away.
I'm GOING to the movies tonight. Right?
We are GOING to the movies tonight. Right?
If I booked some service calls and the boss wants to know what is happening, I would be correct to say the serviceman is GOING to see Mrs. Smith at 2pm
I'm here and you are there. I invite you to my house and I say "Come over"
Let's say, you cannot go out and instead, invite me. You say "Come over."
In both cases the person is GOING to meet the other person.
Expecting you to COME to my house, I call and ask your whereabouts it's incorrect to say "I'm coming to your house" because (from your perspective) you are GOING to my house.
Coming or going... got it?
Next blog I think I'll address the abbreviated spelling of etcetera again.
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Rebootx I've been known to blog a few funny English language quirks... poor, pore, pour
"Those bloody fools"
I didn't see any blood...
A grammatically correct & factual statement which can be spoken, but not written --
"There are three '4s', three '2s' two '8s' and two '1s' in the English language." (For, Fore, Four/To, Too, Two/Ate, Eight/Won,One)
Me: She had hair growing under her chin
He: Was it becoming?
Me: Yeah, becoming a man!
I hit a bump at 85 and rode on Ruthlessly
For the record, the person who said people in the south use the word "hisself". You are correct in addition to other slang. I'm not from the south. I'm from New Jersey which is in the north. I'm living in the south for the moment. Hopefully a short moment
second, second. ...…….. fourth, forth.
Any takers.. on second, second.
I was around 7 years old when we moved to Miami and remember walking to the corner store to buy some bubble gum. The lady behind the counter asked me if I wanted a sack.
I said "Huh?" and she repeated herself. Realizing the blank stare for not knowing what she was talking about, she asked "Do you want a bag?"
In the South, any distance more than 100 feet can be described as "yonder"
Creek is pronounced crick
Depending on your location (in the South) window could be pronounced winddah.
Open the winddah, it's hot in here.
In the north instead of saying ..... I'm doing laundry today. They say I'm doing the wersh meaning the washing of clothes.
In the midwest they say "pop" for soda
In Boston when they say car it's pronounced the cah
In New York they pronounce it as New Yerk
New York?
Let's sit on the soffer and have a nice cup of corefee
I need to put some corking around the leaky window
They don't flush the toilet. Because, it's a terlet.
You have to berl water to make spagetti.
Tree is the number after two
Not here.
But we do use ye for 2nd person plural.
We also inadvertently translate English from Irish.
So for example, an English person would say 'I have already eaten dinner' . We'd say 'I'm after dinner '
Anyway, my brother passed this little quiz along to me. It actually pinpointed me between Chicago and Rockford IL. Then again, we do have our south side crew with their "dis, dat and doze for this that and those. Like the old SNL Super Fan skits and "Da Bears!"
English appears to be a very complicated language.
Di you know the difference between sleeping in and sleeping out?
Di you know the difference between sleeping in and sleeping out?
It was one of those points were I realised no matter how many years I will never fully get the hang of English.
I was so embarrassed
"Let me take you higher"
Don't bring me down"
How is it possible to sew from the BACK OF A SEWING MACHINE ??
Confucius said never build an outhouse near a stream. Iffin you do, you must always get water upstream from that outhouse.
The rule for that is to remove the tape as soon as you can as masking tape will stick to fabric like gum to a sweater!
One Baroness to a rival. "My dearest Martha, you look fabulous as always, I especially love your new hairstyle, yours of course is an open carriage, and your rural, rosy complexion, so ..elegant, have you perchance,.. imbibed ?"