"I think the further away you get from London the more we skip words.
Like where I am. We don't say to the shops. We just say going to shop"
That's what I wondered .
I find language and it's evolution fascinating |
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"Definitely regional. T'shop or to the shop. The more I spend time with Northerners the more my accent and sentence structure changes."
Respectfully disagree 😊
I’ve heard it all over London and the south east as well. My point above about the 24 letter alphabet was not specifically people choosing to miss out those letters, more that a percentage of the population are lazy speakers. Their learned language is such they say things like “It doan ma’er” and “I’m goan a wee.”
It’s not their fault, it’s how they were raised and the influences around them. I see it as a huge shame but I accept language evolves. I’m pleased we no longer speak like we did in Elizabethan times, so who am I to say where the evolution should stop. |
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Can I just apologise.....my bad typo. Or over eagerness to reply can sometimes result in missing vowels in various places. I'm not doing it on purpose and I'm not even dyslexic ...just a bit of a spaz  |
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"Sexy huh?
Is missing the preposition eg saying ' I'm going Tesco ' instead ' I'm going to Tesco' a regional thing? I'm hearing it more and more.
No criticism from me, just interested "
Kind of yes, I feel we subconscious take on the prominent lingo we are surrounded by. For instance I once went to a weekend long reggae festival and practically come home fluent in patois.
Ana mi gwan again dis year to brush hup on mi lyric n ting |
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By *ino200Man 8 weeks ago
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"Sexy huh?
Is missing the preposition eg saying ' I'm going Tesco ' instead ' I'm going to Tesco' a regional thing? I'm hearing it more and more.
No criticism from me, just interested "
are you saying it is bad grammar because they left the 2 out ?
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"Sexy huh?
Is missing the preposition eg saying ' I'm going Tesco ' instead ' I'm going to Tesco' a regional thing? I'm hearing it more and more.
No criticism from me, just interested are you saying it is bad grammar because they left the 2 out ?
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Well it's grammatically incorrect but then so is a lot of my speech. I'm just interested is all |
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"Sexy huh?
Is missing the preposition eg saying ' I'm going Tesco ' instead ' I'm going to Tesco' a regional thing? I'm hearing it more and more.
No criticism from me, just interested "
Not sure it's regional. It's almost like we don't like to use words in our beautiful language and try to communicate in as a few bytes as possible.
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Wait a few years and AI slop will probably make things worse. AI trained on AI slop, then the population influenced) trained on AI slop
People increasingly engaged with them by speech, without please and thankyous, just barking orders  |
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"I think the further away you get from London the more we skip words.
Like where I am. We don't say to the shops. We just say going to shop
That's what I wondered .
I find language and it's evolution fascinating "
That's a Yorkshire thing e.g. Going tuh shops has become going shop...... but I HAVE noticed what NC is describing and I think it's language evolution as she says and I think it's mostly younger people and original cultural influences from their parents. Innit doh bro.
Non standard English does slip in and become more widely used.
Flashback .... my daughter used to say ..I'm going bed.
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"I'm not sure I notice differences within the UK. I do notice dropping prepositions as a North American phenomenon, which of course is influential here. "
As in...
I'm gonna bomb Iran instead of going to |
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"I'm not sure I notice differences within the UK. I do notice dropping prepositions as a North American phenomenon, which of course is influential here.
As in...
I'm gonna bomb Iran instead of going to "
Nah .. Exemplar fail.. Gonna is short form for 'going to' |
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"I'm not sure I notice differences within the UK. I do notice dropping prepositions as a North American phenomenon, which of course is influential here.
As in...
I'm gonna bomb Iran instead of going to "
'Gonna' is a casual shortened version of 'going to' though. You wouldn't say 'I'm going bomb Iran', unless there was a comma in the middle and then it has a slightly different meaning. |
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"I'm not sure I notice differences within the UK. I do notice dropping prepositions as a North American phenomenon, which of course is influential here.
As in...
I'm gonna bomb Iran instead of going to "
Well, no. Gonna is an acceptable slang shortening that's been accepted for a long time.
I mean more the form, "I will write Charles, thank you for your attention to this matter" |
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"I'm not sure I notice differences within the UK. I do notice dropping prepositions as a North American phenomenon, which of course is influential here.
As in...
I'm gonna bomb Iran instead of going to
Well, no. Gonna is an acceptable slang shortening that's been accepted for a long time.
I mean more the form, "I will write Charles, thank you for your attention to this matter""
"write him" is American usage, which is annoyingly increasing here (along with mom, pantyhose, gotten...) |
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"I'm not sure I notice differences within the UK. I do notice dropping prepositions as a North American phenomenon, which of course is influential here.
As in...
I'm gonna bomb Iran instead of going to
Well, no. Gonna is an acceptable slang shortening that's been accepted for a long time.
I mean more the form, "I will write Charles, thank you for your attention to this matter"
"write him" is American usage, which is annoyingly increasing here (along with mom, pantyhose, gotten...)"
Yes, hence me saying it was north American. The OP seems to be asking about a north/south divide, whereas in prepositions, I only notice the Atlantic divide. |
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