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Anybody who holds forth of syntactical matters (lambda calculus and LISP being two examples thereof) and commits the grammatical heresy of writing “I wasn’t goi
by qubex 7y ago
Anybody who holds forth of syntactical matters (lambda calculus and LISP being two examples thereof) and commits the grammatical heresy of writing “I wasn’t going to go home” (emphasis mine) in lieu of “I wouldn’t be going home” has just neutered themselves, in my humble opinion at least.
- foldr 7y agoThere's nothing grammatically wrong with "going to go home".
- qubex 7y agoWhen I was taught English it was most definitely frowned upon and disparaged as “at best an Americanism”. It is grating to the native British ear and has no place in formal writings. There is no situation where it cannot be avoided by rephrasing the sentence (usually, by no more than employing “will be going”, but occasionally resorting to other constructs). During the IB we were absolutely forbidden from using it and would be marked down severely.
- foldr 7y agoI'm a native British English speaker and it sounds completely normal to me. There's certainly nothing grammatically wrong with it. It's the same structure as "going to eat" or "going to walk". Marking you down for using an expression used by all native English speakers is bonkers.
- cat199 7y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyYRyhvlf48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyYRyhvlf48 example #1 from a clearly educated british person: 'i was going to go' (yes, no negation, but still..) agree, this is not formal language, but quite common.
- quickthrower2 7y agoProgramming language grammars and spoken language grammars are two completely separate things. Someone can conceivably be a great programming language researcher who sometimes get's a rule of the English language wrong in a sentence.