My favorite preposition-ended sentence has five of them at the end (so to speak).. "What did you bring that book that I wanted to be read to out of up for?"
The Adventure Time show is a quick, seven-minute mini-show and can be viewed online (link below, questionable legality) and within the first three minutes of the pilot episode, we hear, "Algebraic!" "Mathematical!" and "Columbus!" and the show can get a bit surreal in trying to move the story along quickly enough. "Hey! Sloppy Milkshake!" used as an insult was also a highlight =P
http://adventuretimeforfree.blogspot.com/2010/06/adventure-time-pilot.html
Grant's suggestion that someone's brain suspecting language as having developed a new trend after mentally isolating a pet peeve-ish variation in speaking, reminds me of how often you notice the kind of car you are driving, more than any other ordinary car — especially after newly purchasing one such car. After I randomly decided I hate the phrase "all but" to describe something as "nearly" or "almost entirely," I started hearing it *everywhere* although I'm sure it was just being used as frequently as it had been before. I've called it frequioception in that it's a perception of change in frequency regarding a topic. For instance: "Since I heard about colliwobbles on A Way With Words, I've experienced an increased frequioception of the word," or "I used to see Mazdas all over town when I drove one, but now that I'm driving a Ford pickup, I've experienced a decreased frequioception of Mazdas."
A blip on my language radar with increased frequioception lately has been the use of "of" as a replacement for the contracted 've. I was amazed to have seen it actually used in a Family Circus comic panel, for July 22, 2011, where little Billy says in the caption, "The Beacon Hill kids must of had a tough time skateboarding on THESE streets," when it should have been "must've" and I've seen a dozen plus people use "should of" and "would of" (some of them being college-age ESL students, though).. I'm curious as to how far back this trend reaches?
http://justcartoonsonly.blogspot.com/2011/07/family-circus-arcamax-publishing-family_2940.html
Another word I've invented is duoapostrophic (which, like frenquioception, is a double-dactyl (perhaps even triple) and has a 3 immediately consecutive vowels) which describes a contraction or otherwise displacement of letters in a word/phrase, that could be substituted by 2 apostrophes. The only duoapostrophic words I've come across so far, have been rural-style pronunciations of words, such as doe'n't (sounds like dudn't, for doesn't) and 'le'en (or possibly even 'le'em), for eleven. This opens the way for other words like multiapostrophic, trioapostrphic, quadroapostrophic, etc.
Love those made-up words! Very creative. I mentioned this in another thread, but I'll say it again here. The only word I ever actually made up was in response to a solicitation for new "sniglets" by SNL comedian Rich Hall back in the 80s. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniglet .
Anyway, my sniglet was "geogoraphobic." It's meaning was "the tendency of whatever detail you're searching for in an atlas to be located at the seam between two pages." Never made it into print or SNL, but I always liked it.
ablestmage said:
A blip on my language radar with increased frequioception lately has been the use of "of" as a replacement for the contracted 've. I was amazed to have seen it actually used in a Family Circus comic panel, for July 22, 2011, where little Billy says in the caption, "The Beacon Hill kids must of had a tough time skateboarding on THESE streets," when it should have been "must've" and I've seen a dozen plus people use "should of" and "would of" (some of them being college-age ESL students, though).. I'm curious as to how far back this trend reaches?
I must of heard of for have all of my 56 years (although I rarely see it in print). (smiley)
Emmett
ablestmage said:
Another word I've invented is duoapostrophic (which, like frenquioception, is a double-dactyl (perhaps even triple) and has a 3 immediately consecutive vowels) which describes a contraction or otherwise displacement of letters in a word/phrase, that could be substituted by 2 apostrophes. The only duoapostrophic words I've come across so far, have been rural-style pronunciations of words, such as doe'n't (sounds like dudn't, for doesn't) and 'le'en (or possibly even 'le'em), for eleven. This opens the way for other words like multiapostrophic, trioapostrphic, quadroapostrophic, etc.
I trust you are aware of Kanye West's interruption of Taylor Swift receiving her Video Music Award that contained the classic line "I'm'a let you finish"?
Sorry, Grant.
The starting "So,..." is *much* more common now than even 5 years ago. I'll take it another step and posit that it's much more common among academics than lay-folk. The next ten times you hear a starting 'So,' I'll bet you that nine of them are from researchers, doctoral students, or lab assistants. Find an discussion with a full-bird, tenured, published professor and you'll, likely get all ten cases in the same interview!
As for the word 'boughten,' my first, most, and favorite exposure to this "word" was in John Prine's song Souvenirs: "Memories, they can't be boughten./ They can't be won at carnivals for free."
Love the show - even the parts I don't agree with (like ending that sentence with a preposition!)!
-AL