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Sometimes grammar can give away a non-native speaker, particularly: “Show me how it looks like.” The use of how here is hard to explain, but it’s wrong. It shou
by lwansbrough 3y ago
Sometimes grammar can give away a non-native speaker, particularly: “Show me how it looks like.” The use of how here is hard to explain, but it’s wrong. It should be “what it looks like”. This is an instant giveaway usually.
But even native English speakers have weird ways of saying things. One grammatical error I hear a lot in people from the Appalachia region is the “needs done” construction. Always sounds bizarre. ie. “This work needs done by tomorrow.” Also the positive “anymore” construction. ie. “You see that a lot anymore” (“these days”).
- Name_Chawps 3y agoIf people from a region are all doing it, it's not an error, it's a dialect.
- lwansbrough 3y agoOn the other hand, if most people aren’t doing it, you could also say it’s both an error and a dialect.
- Name_Chawps 3y agoAn idiolect, maybe
- gniv 3y agoI've never heard that usage of "anymore". Interesting, reminds me of the French word "jamais", which can mean either never or ever, depending on context.
- vintermann 3y agoThat last one makes some poetic sense. There are the things you don't see a loot anymore, and the things you do see a lot anymore.
- whelp_24 3y agoAre you sure it wasn't something more like "get the work that needs done, done by tomorrow."?
- lwansbrough 3y ago“needs done” is “incorrect” grammar here.