On accident

I kind of can’t take people seriously when they say On accident, I don’t know or care if its more or less grammatical, it sounds like a child sputtering in my mind. It should be By accident or accidentally

Tummy

Any adult has zero business saying this lol

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      I’m a stickler for grammar and speech as well. It’s classist, I know. But even as a little kid, I picked up on terminology that other kids used that in retrospect reflected poverty (mee-maw, pop-pop, commode (for toilet), yeller (instead of yellow)). At the time, I couldn’t explain why I disliked it, but I considered it deficient. I’ve come a long way in dismissing those views by myself, but I can’t not notice.

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        2 months ago

        “Commode” is one of those? Huh. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a person use that word (I’ve only seen it in writing)

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          my grandpa used commode, but i haven’t heard it from anyone younger. grandpa was a Depression era kid, and the family was poor to begin with.

          he also said “shorts” instead of “underpants”, which caused my brother who only wore long pants some confusion and trouble.