The Off Topic Topic

[MadImmortalMan]

I only use the verb "to grow" in the intransitive. It just sounds very wrong to me otherwise. But this has become one of those language things that seems to have bled all over the place. It's mostly in marketing and politics--ie, "we want to grow the economy", or "I want to grow my business".

To my ear it sounds very like "the teacher learned the children the alphabet".

I think the first time I remember this jarring thing may have been the first debate between Bill Clinton and GHWB. So maybe it's a Southern thing that has since become widely adopted.

Edit: But then again, people have been growing plants for ages. So maybe not. Or maybe that was another example of the same type of bleedover, and the only difference is it happened hundreds of years ago.

[Ed Anger]

I blew my brains out.

[Razgovory]

I blew my brains out.

You do well without them.

[Ed Anger]

I blew my brains out.

You do well without them.

Thank you.

[Ed Anger]

"Get orf my land"

I'd be more impressed if that was a Ma Deuce.

[derspiess]

I think it's the closest they have now.

[garbon]

I only use the verb "to grow" in the intransitive. It just sounds very wrong to me otherwise. But this has become one of those language things that seems to have bled all over the place. It's mostly in marketing and politics--ie, "we want to grow the economy", or "I want to grow my business".

To my ear it sounds very like "the teacher learned the children the alphabet".

I think the first time I remember this jarring thing may have been the first debate between Bill Clinton and GHWB. So maybe it's a Southern thing that has since become widely adopted.

Edit: But then again, people have been growing plants for ages. So maybe not. Or maybe that was another example of the same type of bleedover, and the only difference is it happened hundreds of years ago.

[CountDeMoney]

I only use the verb "to grow" in the intransitive. It just sounds very wrong to me otherwise.

It's a lot easier to use when you refer to yourself and everything in the third person.  Try it with work emails, you'll see how easy it flows.

[sbr]

https://twitter.com/SNFaizalKhamisa/status/722141272820031492

[Admiral Yi]

Heard on BBC/NPR that Uber settled its class action with California drivers for $100 million.  The drivers remain independent contractors.

Makes no sense to me.  Should be one or the other.

[Zanza]

Cologne is the first city in Germany that will put traffic lights in the ground at tram crossings so that people looking at their smartphone see them.

[garbon]

There is a man standing near me who has a fairly substantial gut and his shirt fails to cover say the bottom sixth. I can't help but wonder does he not feel that? And more relevant how does he not care?

[Brazen]

Meanwhile in Norn Iron...

[The Larch]

Such a charmer!

[Maladict]

That's someone trolling, right?