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Old 10-13-2003, 05:01 PM
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Re: can the GC English teachers help me here...

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Originally posted by TonyB06
Is anybody else bothered by the following type of bootleg sentence that I now hear all the time?

"The car needs washed."

NO. The car needs to be washed. I know we tend relax our language a bit away from the professional setting but this one bugs me for some reason...

I hate PEED MY/YOUR/HIS/HER PANTS. . . stick a fricking preposition up in that sentence. She peed in her pants, I peed in my pants . . .
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