Blog : OFF OF***

5179 posts
6/8/2018 7:52 pm

OFF OF***

I started hearing it creep into spoken dialogue on media about 10 years ago and at first it seemed like an anomaly.....a local dialect perhaps, but since then I have heard it with increasing frequency. For starters, the redundancy is peculiar...

People are saying "based off of" instead of "based on".....The movie is based off of a true story........It's kind of interesting, in a way, to be old enough to have watched the evolution of a language.....well, two languages.....We saw "regardless" pick up that annoying redundancy and become "irregardless" to the point of making it into Webster's.....same meaning......and we watched as "literally" acquired the opposite meaning as well as it's original meaning. well, maybe not the original meaning, but the one we were used to.

But off of?....I now hear even journalists using it.....my report is based off of.......I may live long enough to stop noticing every time.....at least now I accept it as a done deal......It doesn't annoy me anymore.....not as much as irregardless did.....LOL...

And that's based off of .....sounds like a barky little dog.....off of, off of...off of.....Well, maybe I am a little annoyed.

sparkleflit 76F

10271 posts
6/8/2018 7:53 pm

Off off...off of...off of...off of...off of...

MrsJoe 76F

17438 posts
6/9/2018 3:47 am

I guess we all find certain phrases to be irritating or amusing, or we don't think about them at all .... based on our location or what we have heard all our lives. I hadn't paid any attention to the one you mention, probably because I have heard it for a long time. What you say is true about the use of "based off of". "Based on" is the more accurate phrase.
Language seems to be a growing organism and as old as we are, we have seen a lot of changes.

Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.

Rocketship 80F

18602 posts
6/9/2018 5:31 am

Sighhh..... Don't get me started on the many ways the English language is being massacred!!

sparkleflit 76F

10271 posts
6/9/2018 9:31 am

Rocketship

Sighhh..... Don't get me started on the many ways the English language is being massacred!!

But that's the purpose of my blog.....for you to share the annoying language quirks.......except my dot fetish.......that's strictly off limits....LOL

sparkleflit 76F

10271 posts
6/9/2018 9:42 am

starwomyn

Yes, that one is very common.......especially in circumstances in which people are trying to articulate emotion.....English is particularly lacking on that front......so we rely on evoking empathy rather than expressing how we feel.......One of the most useful aids I found for counselling, was a work-sheet of dozens of facial expressions...I would go over them with the client to help her articulate emotions......it's amazing how limited many people's vocabulary for expressing emotions is......

lilium6 74F

4498 posts
6/9/2018 6:20 pm

sparkleflit - my post has disappeared - did you take issue with 'anyways...'? Isn't it a slang word?

sparkleflit 76F

10271 posts
6/9/2018 8:02 pm

lilium6

sparkleflit - my post has disappeared - did you take issue with 'anyways...'? Isn't it a slang word?

I didn't see an earlier comment by you......Yes, "anyways" is used as a closing after a dialogue......sometimes used sarcastically as a comment on someone else's dialogue......I don't remember anyone doing that to me, but I would find that annoying for sure.....it sounds very dismissive, doesn't it?

sewg1941 82F

6/11/2018 4:41 pm

Until about 50 years ago or so, we had a beautiful language with a sensible grammar. Then we had kids and a few years later our kids had kids and teachers weren't getting paid to teach anymore...!

sparkleflit 76F

10271 posts
6/12/2018 6:33 pm

sewg1941

Sorry to hear you're sick.....hope you feel better soon...