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Mon 2005-11-28 15:38
Some things that annoy me
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xaosenkosmos.livejournal.com
Mon 2005-11-28 21:51
The spurious ‘of’ in phrases of the form ‘it's not even that funny of a joke’.
Oddly enough, in the English i speak, "It's not even that funny a joke" is more incorrect than "It's not even that funny of a joke."
It's worth noting that my English prefers "That needs done" over "That needs to be done."
So much of American English has been wonderfully polluted by German and Dutch =)
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Oddly enough, in the English i speak, "It's not even that funny a joke" is more incorrect than "It's not even that funny of a joke."
It's worth noting that my English prefers "That needs done" over "That needs to be done."
So much of American English has been wonderfully polluted by German and Dutch =)