I have very suddenly started hearing a strange quirk of grammar that needs to die in a fire. I’m going to write it on an index card and burn the index card.
I swear I haven’t heard this before the 2020s: “My kitchen needs cleaned.” Not “My kitchen needs to be cleaned”, not “my kitchen needs cleaning.”
Explain to someone ESL that “My kitchen needs cleaned” has two verbs in it, one is present tense, one is past tense, combined they imply a future action. AAAH!
So I live in New Jersey. There’s North Jersey, where they say cawfee, which is fine. There’s Central Jersey, where were normal. And then, there’s south Jersey, where they have a stupid accent - I need to go hoom (home) because I forgot my phoon (phone) - and they also have this weird grammatical quirk where they say “I’m done my dinner,” and just ditch the word “with.”
New Jersey is basically a postage stamp, and not a collectible edition, just a regular ass postage stamp with a piece of the american flag on it, on the envelope that is the United States, yet somehow we have three dialects, essentially. And it’s gotten a bit more homogenous over time, as things tend to (except south Jersey is still fucking weird), but there’s still plenty of people who you can tell where they’re from by how they talk.
I have very suddenly started hearing a strange quirk of grammar that needs to die in a fire. I’m going to write it on an index card and burn the index card.
I swear I haven’t heard this before the 2020s: “My kitchen needs cleaned.” Not “My kitchen needs to be cleaned”, not “my kitchen needs cleaning.”
Explain to someone ESL that “My kitchen needs cleaned” has two verbs in it, one is present tense, one is past tense, combined they imply a future action. AAAH!
So I live in New Jersey. There’s North Jersey, where they say cawfee, which is fine. There’s Central Jersey, where were normal. And then, there’s south Jersey, where they have a stupid accent - I need to go hoom (home) because I forgot my phoon (phone) - and they also have this weird grammatical quirk where they say “I’m done my dinner,” and just ditch the word “with.”
New Jersey is basically a postage stamp, and not a collectible edition, just a regular ass postage stamp with a piece of the american flag on it, on the envelope that is the United States, yet somehow we have three dialects, essentially. And it’s gotten a bit more homogenous over time, as things tend to (except south Jersey is still fucking weird), but there’s still plenty of people who you can tell where they’re from by how they talk.