It’s “pasttime” that people “wakeup” to misusing compound words in place of word phrases!!!

[MumblesBadly]

I may only be a trucker, but this headline today from a well-known online news outlet ground my gears:

“Miami could be underwater within 80 years, but rich people keep buying luxury waterfront homes — and local experts says there's a simple explanation for it”

Can you see the mistake in this sentence, the gross bastardization of the language with the increasing use of a compound word in place of a word phrase? Read this appalling liberal apologia to the corruption of our beloved American grammar heritage.

https://grammarist.com/spelling/underwater-under-water/

If you think it merely a typographical error, think again, because it occurs throughout the article, even featured prominently in bullet points.

https://www.businessinsider.com/miam...erwater-2019-3

Never! We must turn back — not “turnback” — the clock on the erosion of the purity of our great English language!

https://www.usingenglish.com/forum/t...-VS-underwater

To which I say to all fellow American English language patriots: MAGGA! Make American Grammar Great Again!

[Mintjewlips]

This coming from a guy that sounds like slingblade without the charisma........

[Belly Buster]

 

Fuckoff

[Zap_the_Fractions_Giraffe]

never in my life have I witnessed someone use passtime like that. the word you're thinking of is pastime, as in "baseball is america's pastime" and that's a legit word, knuckledick

the only real problem I have with illiterates is when they type "would of" "could of" "should of"

[Belly Buster]

Your screen name is MumblesBadly and your complaning about compound words.

[Bootsy Collins]

I'm starting to wonder if Mumbles is a fucking well played troll job by tapper or scuter.

[MumblesBadly]

Your screen name is MumblesBadly and your complaning about compound words.

Only if someone “mumblesbadly” would I complain, because that would be an inappropriate use of a compound word, which usually is a noun or adjective, or if capitalized, even internally so, a proper noun...

But why am I needing to explain this to a Brit??? Don’t you buggers get a decent education over there??? Or has the education system over there gone to bloody hell as well?

[MumblesBadly]

Millennials are at it again, destroying our precious language by misusing the compound noun versions of two-word verb phrases!!!



PLEASE, God! Make it STOP!!!