'My other half'

pink_princess

DannyBo wrote: »

I guess you'll have to resort to: tomiel then ! :A

:rotfl:I'll stick to OH, DD1, DD2 and DS

coolcait

pink_princess wrote: »

I know and so do my children and most of my family but we still say of, rarely 've. Unless I am typing a work document for Southerners of course

If you say "should of" etc, it's still wrong. No matter where you live, and no matter that everyone around you says it.

You recognise that fact when you type the correct version for people outside your immediate circle/

Just as I listen to family, friends and colleagues say things like "I have wrote", "I have went", "I have never went", "I have did", "I done", "I have saw", "I seen"

and all the "would of, should of, could of" stuff.

Day in, day out.

It's rife in this part of Scotland. You can call it dialect if you want.

But, if you are writing it down, you're expected to use the grammaticaly correct version.

Just as - if you were more noticeably bilingual - you'd be expected to use the correct language in context.

Tiddlywinks

How about 'significant other'? That's a popular phrase in the US... bit too 'right on' for me though... I just say husband as that's what he is.

I think these other phrases are cropping up now that more people are living together outside of marriage and don't really know how to describe their partners - in the olden days they were boyfriends and then husbands - life was simple then... .

ETA: Also, same sex partnerships are 'out' now and so people will ask about other half, partner etc in a non-gender way until they know whether the person is seeing a male or female.

System

OH seems too formal for me atm....so i'll stick with boyfriend (i can get away with it though cos he's only 22.. :whistle: )

DannyBo

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

How about 'significant other'? That's a popular phrase in the US... bit too 'right on' for me though... I just say husband as that's what he is.

I think these other phrases are cropping up now that more people are living together outside of marriage and don't really know how to describe their partners - in the olden days they were boyfriends and then husbands - life was simple then... .

Significant other is as deeply cringeworthy

pink_princess

coolcait wrote: »

If you say "should of" etc, it's still wrong. No matter where you live, and no matter that everyone around you says it.

You recognise that fact when you type the correct version for people outside your immediate circle/

Just as I listen to family, friends and colleagues say things like "I have wrote", "I have went", "I have never went", "I have did", "I done", "I have saw", "I seen"

and all the "would of, should of, could of" stuff.

Day in, day out.

It's rife in this part of Scotland. You can call it dialect if you want.

But, if you are writing it down, you're expected to use the grammaticaly correct version.

Just as - if you were more noticeably bilingual - you'd be expected to use the correct language in context.

But we are not writing on MSE forums as grammatically correct, or at least I am not.

It is a non formal forum where I type the way I wish without spell checking or making it stand up to scrutiny.

DannyBo

coolcait wrote: »

If you say "should of" etc, it's still wrong. No matter where you live, and no matter that everyone around you says it.

You recognise that fact when you type the correct version for people outside your immediate circle/

Just as I listen to family, friends and colleagues say things like "I have wrote", "I have went", "I have never went", "I have did", "I done", "I have saw", "I seen"

and all the "would of, should of, could of" stuff.

Day in, day out.


It's rife in this part of Scotland. You can call it dialect if you want.

But, if you are writing it down, you're expected to use the grammaticaly correct version.

Just as - if you were more noticeably bilingual - you'd be expected to use the correct language in context.

I say could uv - never of.
but I can see how peeps <<<< (another of my hates) get it wrong.

pink_princess

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

OH seems too formal for me atm....so i'll stick with boyfriend (i can get away with it though cos he's only 22.. :whistle: )

You can call your boyfriend boyfriend if that is what he is to you.

Is he a toy boy MU?

DannyBo

pink_princess wrote: »

But we are not writing on MSE forums as grammatically correct, or at least I am not.

It is a non formal forum where I type the way I wish without spell checking or making it stand up to scrutiny.

I guess I'm a bit of a grammar nazi - having said that, I don't go around correcting others.

Correct grammar is something I look for when selecting my other half:rotfl:

pink_princess

DannyBo wrote: »

I guess I'm a bit of a grammar nazi - having said that, I don't go around correcting others.

Correct grammar is something I look for when selecting my other half:rotfl:

Really?

I hope you have a lot higher criteria than that!