Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Staying with my theme of complaining about minutia

People here drop "to be."

Mass Hamlet phobia?

"This needs changed." It's all over craigslist:  "The A/C needs charged."

I remember in elementary or middle school that dropping the "to be" was a common grammatical error, but I never heard it until I moved to Indiana. The least they could say is "This needs charging." But no.  

Grammar Nazi! Woo!

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