Matthew Burgess wrote: > Hi folks, > > As Randy is inflicting :) yet another round of proof-reading on the LFS > book, I stumbled across > http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors. Absolutely > wonderful examples of common English usage errors. It needs updating > though; a notable example it lacks is "he *learned* me how to drive",
What is wrong with that? I done been learned a lot of things. Seriously, I know damn good and well that it is incorrect to use 'learned' in place of 'taught' and 'done' in place of 'have', but I was brought up around people who do speak that way. In causual conversation, I do myself on the rare occasion. Granted it depends mostly on the company, the tone of the conversation, and of course how worked up I happen to be at the time. "done did" (done been ^ ) and "whereabouts are/did..." are a couple of others. :-) BTW, the 'whereabouts' example may be correct depending on how you interpret what is written in 1913 Webster's, as shown by gnome dict. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
