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English is weird
LeeC:
weird mussing that I felt belonged here:
"Your welcome." Shouldn't that have been you're welcome as in "you are welcome?" Was it always bastardized in modern English or does it have a deeper meaning like your (possessive) welcome is needed? On that note, shouldn't welcome be past tense in that phrase since you responding to a thank you of something you did? "You're welcomed."
LTK:
I don't know anyone who writes it as "your welcome". It's pretty simple, if one person says "Thank you for the help/dinner/your time" the other responds "You are welcome (to it)", just like you could say "You are welcome to help yourself from the fridge."
LeeC:
Maybe its a regional thing but I see it all the time and it just bothers me. :venonat:
LTK:
It would bother me too, but then I think about how people say "bye-bye", which is "goodbye" abbreviated and then doubled, which itself is bastardised from "god b'w'ye" which is short for "god be with you" and I realise we are powerless against the forces of entropy eventually removing all grammatical sense from the English language.
Pilchard123:
--- Quote from: Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings Goes to School ---"Of course not," said Venables. "His name's Temple, and his initials are C.A.T. so naturally we call him Dog.""
"But you didn't call him Dog; you called him Bod."
"Give me a change to get a word in," said Venables. "I haven't finished yet. It's a bit of a sweat calling him Dog, so we call him Dogsbody for short."
"But it isn't short, " protested Jennings. "Dogsbody's much longer than Dog."
"Okay, then, it needs shortening. Bod short for Body, and Dogsbody short for Dog. Really!" Venables shook his head sadly. "You new oiks are dim at picking things up."
--- End quote ---
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