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People who say "less" when they mean "fewer" ought to be turned into soup, the soup fed to baboons and the baboons fired into an active volcano. What has you grinding your teeth with rage, and why?

Suggested by Smash Monkey

(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 14:36)
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It's become, not get.
People who use "get" when they mean "become" should be shot.

Yes, Beatrix Potter, I'm talking to you. I don't care that you wrote some timeless classics of children's literature; your obscene mangling of our beautiful language means you need to die.

Oh. You're already dead. That's alright then.
(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 21:07, 5 replies)
RIS?
I don't become it?
(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 21:18, closed)
Nor does it become you.

(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 21:28, closed)
Not sure I follow this either.
So rather than say, "I'm beginning to get fat." you'd rather I said, "I'm beginning to become fat." ?
(, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 22:08, closed)

Neither.

"I'm becoming fatter."
(, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 1:51, closed)
Not and neither would have led to a double negative, no?

(, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 0:04, closed)

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