Sick

Oh man, it's totally Grammar Complaint Day here.

I hate how "sick" has become a 'compliment' word. Every single popular person in my grade says "sick" instead of, say, "awesome" or "cool." So like, now I can't say "That's sick" when someone shows me a video of a cat on LSD (for example), because they might think I mean that I think it's hilarious and send me more. Now I have to remember to use "repulsive" or "cruel" or "sadistic." Which, y'know, are more interesting words, but they're not what I would say immediately.

Also, I totally don't get the etymology behind this. Like, who decided that 'sick' should be the next 'awesome'? Who thought it would be a good idea to turn a useful negative word into an unclear positive word? Wasn't "awesome" enough?

Anyway yeah. Sometimes changing the meanings of words is fun, but usually it's just annoying. :/

"Everyday"

OMG RANDOM GRAMMAR NAZI TIME

Okay, so y'know what ruffles my feathers?

The way people use words like "everyday" or "anyone" or "everyone" when that's really not what they should be using.

For example, let's say Bobby here:

Is trying to tell Facebook that every single flower in his garden bloomed.

He would be incorrect if he said, "oh yay, everyone of my flowers bloomed!"

Yes, "everyone" is a word-- however, Bobby just raped the English language by making it refer to every one of his flowers.

Similarly, if he wanted to tell Facebook that he would be eating chocolate 24/7 as his New Year's resolution, he would not want to say, "I'm gonna eat chocolate everyday this year!"

Or if he wanted to ask Facebook if they'd seen any of the multiple Harry Potter movies, he would not want to say "hey has someone seen anyone of the 7 hp movies?"

But when that does happen, the English language calls up its big brother Latin, and Latin goes pre-medieval on your ass.

"Will" and "Shall"

^Via.

"Will" and "shall" are not interchangeable. Unfortunately, that's what a lot of people seem to think-- saying "will" is acceptable for every pronoun, while "shall" is also acceptable but you should only use "shall" when you're trying to impress an English teacher, otherwise you sound pretentious and/or British. This is not so.



You know how French and Spanish have the specific patterns for verbs? Well, English does too-- sort of. For most verbs. Many, anyway.
Here is "to be" in the future tense.

I shall.
You will.
He or She will.
They will.
We shall.

In other words, anything that I am doing, you use "shall," not "will," even if someone else is also doing it.

So, for example, the picture above is grammatically incorrect-- it should say "We shall not be able to tell where he was found."

Actually, My First Dictionary has a lot of will/shall mistakes. Fortunately, it's awesome enough to make up for it. o3o

So in conclusion: