"I'm going to the store. Would you like to go with?"

[supercheesegirl]

http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=grammar_whores&itemid=75612

a question: after reading the above, don't you think that a certain someone's posts on the subject were just a little bitter and mean?

Comments

[sleepyworm.livejournal.com]

now, dear, we shouldn't be taking our squabbles to other peoples' communities or friends lists. ;)

And I only make fun of phrases that make no sense. If "come with" made sense, I'd be ok with it. But anything could follow that "with", not just "me". It's wide open, because it's not established throughout the language like the understood "you" in a command. Pockets of people do not a society make, be they from Chicago or PA or wherever. It's still a colloquialism.

And I certainly don't say any of this to be mean to you. As a grammar whore yourself, I'd hope you can understand that I only bicker about this for the good of the language. :)

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

yeah, but hon, you were downright mean. i'm kind of hurt, actually, that you would say such things about your "girlfriend", as if said girlfriend is some sort of hick from the backwoods of PA, in a public forum, when you know that said girlfriend, who is no hick whatsoever, will be reading the comment. it felt rather vicious to me. i know that i can be mean sometimes, particularly in a discussion like ones we've had on this topic, but i never brought it beyond the two of us, and i've never been intentionally vicious.

and i commented on your last post there, you should read it.

[painkiller.livejournal.com]

I is horrible @ grammar, but even I knew what was wrong with that phrase. Oh, and tell Jorn and the semi-automatic implied is.