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LostOnTheInternet
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04 Nov 2011, 11:28 pm

Is people using colloquial everyday language. Okay, this may sound a bit weird, but are any of you grammatically picky? Do you just hate it when people talk extremely sloppy or use words such as "ain't" or misuse words? (I.E. Don't for doesn't) It just really makes me mad because I really feel that people are missing out on an opportunity to actually use the English language. I really hate colloquialisms, and I feel that anyone who speaks with such words are uneducated.



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05 Nov 2011, 12:36 am

LostOnTheInternet wrote:
Is people using colloquial everyday language. Okay, this may sound a bit weird, but are any of you grammatically picky? Do you just hate it when people talk extremely sloppy or use words such as "ain't" or misuse words? (I.E. Don't for doesn't) It just really makes me mad because I really feel that people are missing out on an opportunity to actually use the English language. I really hate colloquialisms, and I feel that anyone who speaks with such words are uneducated.


There are actually situations in which there are proper grammatical usages of the word "ain't", however I do believe it is in the interest of the speaker to refrain from using it in most academic and professional environments.