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Oh I just don’t know anymore.
Throws up arms metaphorically.
toward/towards?
backward/backwards?
couple more like that
If you yourself want to be precise, or at least sound well-spoken, I would use the “-s” ending where the word is being used as an adverb (“the rocket went upwards”) but never or rarely as a a preposition (“the rocket went toward us”). It is largely a matter of preference/dialect, but to me, using the “-s” ending on a preposition sounds uncultured.
Yeah I’ll go with that jib-cut.
When dullards say “ignorant” when they mean to say “arrogant”.
I’ve seen this in “Ask a Manager” a couple of times and it annoys the crap out of me: “I’m a creative in such and such industry.”
No, you’re a creative person or worker…
Just last week, I heard–from an English teacher, no less–“Her and her friend went to New York”.
“Did you bring enough for everybody?” (As seen in Clockwise.)
“Were you raised in a barn?” (How Green Was My Valley.)
There’s something about phrases like this that aggravate me.
Why not simply say: “Stop chewing gum.” and “Go back and close the door.” No, it has to be some phrase that is passive:idiotic.
I’d love to see a movie where a student is chewing gum into a all-class meeting and, when a teacher says “Did you bring enough for everybody.” proceeds to haul out a big bag of gum and passes it around.
Had a great 7th grade teacher (Hi, Mr. Kroll!) who encouraged us to do that in (the dread) Miss Robert’s class. She always used those little power trip phrases, so was flummoxed when sure 'nuff, when she chastised one of my friends, a mega-size bag of bazooka bubble gum was revealed.
She might have outlawed it anyhow if Mr. Kroll hadn’t strolled by her door right then: “And how are things here? Oh, gum for everyone? You certainly do know how to engage your students, Miss R.”
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Not allowed to chew gum at formation, unless I brought enough for everybody.
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(Next day) Not allowed to chew gum at formation even if I did bring enough for everybody.
Another choice for the teacher is this one.
Probably just me, but there’s a crappy movie called, The Rage: Carrie 2, that has a line of dialogue that almost makes my ears jump off my head and flee the vicinity. See how it sounds to you:
“Shit. It won’t open”
“Oh shit, dude. It’s her. It’s her doing it.”
That’s what I hear and have no idea what is objectionable to that.
(reply to burpo as Discourse thinks it knows better than everybody else how to make things clear.)
“It is her/him” is grammatically not quite right. The usage has become common for so long that “It’s she doing it” sounds clumsy, but from a presciptivist position, it is correct.
“It’s her doing it,” just sounds bad, especially right after, “It’s her!” The line should have been, “Oh, shit, dude! It’s her – she’s doing it!” I hadn’t even thought of, “It’s she doing it.”
“It’s her doing (without the “it”),” could possibly be a New Englander horror-movie expression, as in, “It was her undoing.”
“Y’all” is singular, “all y’all” is plural, at least where I was raised 
A short video treatise on “Y’all.”:
Where were you raised? For me, growing up in various places in old Dixie, “y’all” is plural, while “you” is always singular.
Ditto. I’m born and raised in Houston. Everyone says “y’all” for plural, “all y’all” to include absolutely everyone, and “you” for one person.