Popular Phrases That Are Not Grammatically Correct

How about the one I hate - Seriously? What's your opinion here. One other habit that has crept into our language is when someone makes a verbal statement, but elevates their voice at the end of the sentence as though it were a question. Grrrgghgh!!!

Another great Hub from you, Christy......

I loved your Hub. Like, totally! Did I use two correct sentences? I guess not... :)

This is a brilliant article. Way cool! When it comes to writing-- you the man. Voted up, sideways and totally awesome.

Christy, thanks for several reasons: your excellent hub, the hubbers: the candor is so attractive here and, of course, the quality of what and how it is shared. I will get organized and follow your advice of a, perhaps, my hub on a sort of comparison of the two languages I have used the most. Thanks again.

I just stumbled upon this article, and I thought it was a great observation of today's English language. I study it myself! I noticed once that slang phrases will develop regionally as well. They'll be a part of the dialect. Great minor example is "soda" and "pop". Anyway, I'm glad I found the article. Voted up!

This is great! The word "Sick" sure has changed since I was growing up! "That's SICK!" used to mean it was gross. Now it seems to be a good thing!?

Before the current meaning of the word "awesome" (England) the equivalent term was "awful" ;)

Even in South America, they imported a few words from American English from companies settled there for oil exploration; the exploration crews used some tools by the manufacturer "Mack and Dale" (forgive if I am wrong spelling this); at the end of the shift everyone in the crew needed to gather the tools to bring them back to the warehouse...so the expression referring to the task of gathering the tools was born as "macundales" in Spanish!!! ;) and its use extrapolated from the oil exploration realm to everyday use like, for example, to move out of a flat, you'd say "I will move my 'macundales' to the new place by next week"...

So languages do get "imports" and "exports" depending on where the observer is standing ;)obviously, or perhaps, since we belong to a global community we would not call it again imports/exports but just use it and everyone will get or ...get the meaning? ;) regardless the source/origins...

Same thing happened with those famous shoes "wash and comb" popular in the Elvis Presley era ;) Southamericans used to call those shoes 'guachicones"...particularly in Venezuela...

English is the only language in some countries that is a compulsory subject; we took English all the way since elementary until the first two years of college; same thing with the Spanish; everything from grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading AND writing to history of the language, culture and civilization of the motherland, etc etc. In my times, teachers or profs. came imported from England or the Caribbean area; same for those we took additional language classes like French or Latin. Latin, to me was an enlightening experience really. And it gave birth to my love for languages, specially English and its exquisite ways to call everything by its name and being 'correct; at the same time: indeed a difficult task in Spanish and RAE. Some Spaniard King (I think Alfonso X, is said to have said that Spanish was the language to speak to God... given its "elegance" and "formality"... For elegance, English can be a real pearl and for formality, I think it's mostly needed in diplomacy and technical writing. Creativity knows only of freedom and inventive and muse..and none of those three can be restricted for writing from our souls... Cheers

I'm newish here ;) but I can't help to share my delight with this hub: Great hub here! and, to me, this subject is an old fascination...

Languages do evolve and grow, otherwise, they'd become, like Latin and similar ones, 'dead' languages.

I find that the use of any 'new' or 'disgruntled' word can be less cringing than a phrase: a word by itself would not break grammar rules and it's really meaningfully in a gathering of contemporaneous 'fellas',mostly passing the time instead of engaging in philosophical matters, even in a reported context/speech. A phrase violating grammar rules is not fulfilling the purpose of language which is to communicate in the least ambiguous fashion, regardless of formal or informal requirements, and, frankly, is not inspiring either ;)...Language can be delightful and full of 'nous' :), even with witty misspellings... Likewise, some embedded sayings do sound uninspiring, like "all is good". "I'm good, thank you", "we was falling in love" (there she was...song). Unfortunately, this kind of language 'indigestions' can uninvite anyone to participate...

I was not born in an English spoken place; yet, I fell in love with the English language when I was in elementary school, so you will find me sometimes mechanically translating a phrase or a sentence straight from the Spanish rigorous grammar-based structure

Yet I find that English allows one to express better our inner thoughts and be semantically more impressing...

Thanks really for a good and interesting reading here...Cheers.

Hi Christy, These are funny reminders of our changing language. In my day we said things like, "Far out!" and "Right on!" and "It's a stone cold gas." My favorite was "I can dig it!", meaning I understand. It is a new generation that can use the phrase "Where you at?" and not be concerned about the grammar.

You have presented a useful, funny and interesting hub here. I laughed and shook my head in agreement. I sometimes am baffled at why we use these abbreviated words to get our point across. I find it helpful as a writer to speak as I write, while I write how I speak. :)

I hope folks will use smiley faces more. This helps me get the point across that I am pleased with what I have read. Great hub! :) Voted up and shared. take care. :)

My pet peeve is "I couldn't care less." This phrase makes no sense....well it makes sense but is likely the opposite of what the speaker meant! It should be "I could NOT care less." That said, I cringe at real grammar mistakes and misused words like your/you're (see my hub) much more often than slang usage. I use slang often - like "whatevers" and "awesome" and "wassup" all the dang time. Just for reference, I'm over 30 years old and live in Southern California ;)

Our oral phrases are deeply influenced by Internet nowadays, we can't judge this phenomenon good or bad. But for me, change means creative.

Nice one ( is this another one of those phrases?!) Christy. Loved your compilation of grammatically dubious phrases. Well written. This is 'Way cool';-)

Great hub! Very well written! My least favorite word or response to anything is "awesome." It means nothing to me, but has become so popular in our popular lexicon. Even parents and teachers use it. It is just my pet peeve!

What's up, Cristy? This hub is way cool. Totally. Grammar doesn't control us, we control it. Rules are made for breaking.

I enjoyed reading your article and see the ridiculousness of trying to be grammatically correct while trying to convey the meaning of these phrases. On the other hand, it is almost painful for younger people to be subjected to these phrases when uttered by age-challenged people such as myself, so I try to express myself as age-appropriately as possible. BTW how do I say "You the man!" when addressing a woman. You da man, Christy!

This was a great hub, I really enjoyed it! Wow, that's a lot to type! I Voted this Hub up!

Christy, I could use all the help I can get! I like your hub very much! Voted up and shared!!!

I don't usually follow suggestions by grammar checker. I have used some of the aforementioned phrases and always thought colloquial languages have their own sets of rules.

By the way English language is also developing a local taste in my country.

Yes Christy, the phrase "what's up" always amazes us as it is used to greet peoples or to get their attention but verbally, it fluctuates from it's real meaning. As we say- "What's up!!", can we relate this "up" to something up in the air!! I think the need of this "up" is related to something positive, like saying "voted up" or "buck up". This "up", which is up to the mark (for any progressive reason) or giving some positive feelings, links well and suits best to the phrase mentioned. But right now, if we prove the grammatical correctness of this phrase in such way, a question raises again and that is about the phrases like "give up" and "time's up"!! What each of these terms sounding is again a point of interest. As we can see, "up" used in both phrases is not defining itself for some positive or progressive reason as in "voted up". It amazes us again and the mystery goes on. :)

Well, you've written a very nice and interesting hub. Many thanks.

Excellent hub as always Christy. BTW my response to your hub: 'Totally!' LOL