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I said "<jira ticket> needs deployed" when answering a question the other day at work and the person had to explain why that sentence is not valid. I grew up a
by exception_e 10y ago
I said "<jira ticket> needs deployed" when answering a question the other day at work and the person had to explain why that sentence is not valid.
I grew up about an hour away from Pittsburgh and work/live in Pittsburgh now... what's funny is that Pittsburghese is more prominent just outside of the city.
- rplst8 10y agoIt's perfectly valid. It's just a non-standard construction. ...for American English I'll add.
- rhizome 10y agoIt's regional: http://microsyntax.sites.yale.edu/needs-washed http://microsyntax.sites.yale.edu/needs-washed
- hirsin 10y agoWhenever we were adding HTTP error codes to part of the IE F12 tools, I translated many of the strings from the IETF spec to our formatting, dropping "to be" at every possible case (as a yinzer naturally might). My poor content publisher rejected the draft, circling every grammatical issue and likely wondered if I really had a grasp on the English language. I wondered the same after seeing that much red cross out. It's tough being a Pittsburgher :-)