Adverbs

[WorldEndingFire]

Waaaaah language whinge

AIBU to think people are forgetting how to use adverbs? I know language develops and changes and I embrace that but it sounds so wrong! I keep seeing people write things such as "doing it deliberate" and "going direct" - is it really that much trouble to add the -ly ending?

... also there's a recent thing of using "either" instead of "neither", e.g. "me either" instead of "me neither" - why?

... or "myself/yourself/yourselves" when "me/you" is perfectly fine. It's not fancy or formal to refer use a ...self ending, I'm sorry but if you do this you just sound really silly!

Try the dreadful habit of adding "pre"to everything?

Yes, the bloody 'pre -ordering' thing that i argued with my DP about. Before ordering you are just looking. If they don't have the thing in stock you are still just ordering it.

Argh! Yes! "Pre-warning" and "pre-booking" are my greatest peeves on that front...

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Agree re adverbs. My husband used rarely to use them. Now he uses then or corrects himself before getting the look 🤪

We are kindred spirits! Everything. Have said drives me potty!
It also irks me when people say ‘done good’ instead of ‘done well’

Well, people speak the best they can. DS’s babysitter says things like ‘he done’ and ‘you is’. I just hope he doesn’t pick it up.

This is a pre-reply while I consider what to put.

Pre-order makes sense in the context of a restaurant. Ordering is what you do on arrival. Pre-ordering is when you order before you go so that they know what food to buy in.

Maybe it's just the circles you move in? I've never heard anyone say any of the things in your OP (bar the me/myself thing - I think that's ubiquitous).

No, not my circles, thanks, it's something I see here on MN regularly.

When it comes to using adjectives rather than adverbs, isn’t that quite American?

Not an adverb one, but people who say 'that's a bit cringe' when they mean cringeworthy. It makes me...cringe when I read it.