It’s not bad grammar. It’s different grammar than the “Standard American English” most of us learned in school, and sometimes described as bad grammar for generally racist historical reasons.
Language is largely an arbitrary collection of rules consensually agreed upon. It's no wonder that throughout history, it has been the ruling classes that spoke the most “correctly” and the poor that spoke “incorrectly.” Grammar is a tool of social control.
Why does everyone in the world think they can't be racists simply by virtue of not being American?
I wasn't calling you racist, but do you find that a lot of people do?
Anyway, this linguistic tendency goes way beyond race; think of how the BBC accent was posh London for the longest time, or how Quebecois are ashamed of their accents, or how Argentines envy continental castellano... it's a race thing only in so much as it's a class thing.
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Azzu@leminal.space · 133 pts · 83d
The problem here is that he obviously didn't get her new Tupperware after.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 83d
Was gonna say. You know the solution here.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 83d
attending a Tupperware meeting? How do you even do that?!
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 83d
rumba@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 82d
You can buy mom's Tupperware, but one cannot just buy granny's Tupperware.
There were parties, and appetizers and large purchases.
Occasionally you can find a classic piece on eBay for $26 like this specimen
But the new stuff just isn't the same and granny wants her legacy back gosh darn it.
Azzu@leminal.space · 1 pts · 81d
I understand, however even nonoptimal plastic boxes are better than a bag.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 81d
For my man here, absolutely. But he's dissapointed grandma. He's gettin the bag as a reminder.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 82d
Maybe he did, but that's not the point grandmother is making.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 49 pts · 83d
we all know granny isn't using actual Tupperware. It's old butter or cottage cheese containers.
They will still disown you if you lose them though.
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 83d
My grandma had her original Tupperware from the 70s!
s@piefed.world · 35 pts · 83d
What’s with people omitting the possessive apostrophe and letter S? The word “granny” reads like an adjective here
Zorcron@lemmy.zip · 64 pts · 83d
It seems to be a feature of African-American Vernacular English It seems to be well documented. This is one of the random websites that popped up when I searched for it.
Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 83d
Thats super cool, thanks for the link!
nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 83d
classic one is "baby momma" in general american would be "[my] baby's mother"
rishado@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 82d
Zorcron@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 82d
It’s not bad grammar. It’s different grammar than the “Standard American English” most of us learned in school, and sometimes described as bad grammar for generally racist historical reasons.
rishado@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 78d
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 82d
Language is largely an arbitrary collection of rules consensually agreed upon. It's no wonder that throughout history, it has been the ruling classes that spoke the most “correctly” and the poor that spoke “incorrectly.” Grammar is a tool of social control.
Free your mind.
rishado@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 78d
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 78d
Why does everyone in the world think they can't be racists simply by virtue of not being American?
I wasn't calling you racist, but do you find that a lot of people do?
Anyway, this linguistic tendency goes way beyond race; think of how the BBC accent was posh London for the longest time, or how Quebecois are ashamed of their accents, or how Argentines envy continental castellano... it's a race thing only in so much as it's a class thing.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 83d
Possessive determiners are adjectives.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 8 pts · 83d
It's common in AAVE - nothing wrong with it
harmbugler@piefed.social · 1 pts · 83d
How do you know it's supposed to have an apostrophe and an S though?
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 83d
Context, but I do think that it's important enough to not omit
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 83d
Blud, count yourself fortunate that she's still giving you food. If I'd gone and lost my grandma's Tupperware, she'd straight up murder me ass.
danekrae@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 83d
Get in the mud to have some gud fud, blud.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 83d
In Canada, care comes in bags.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 83d
So does milk but that don’t make it right.
Nah, j/k. Go on with your wacky milk bags, ya crazy hosers.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 4 pts · 83d
Not in bears?
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 83d
Canada comes in Care Bears.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 3 pts · 83d
I'm conflicted if I should upvote this. I'm a little disgusted, but also turned on.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 83d
Damn that looks delicious.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 83d
That is some artful bagging of a meal. One bag, yet neatly compartmentalized with virtually no smearing on the bag. Damn.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 83d
My leftovers look more like some strange sea life from the murky depths.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 82d
And everything in that picture was hours of cooking, cleaning. God I'm tired just looking at that bag.
Granny could probably sell those on doordash for $35 a pop :)
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 83d
Wise woman, your gran.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 83d
THE BAG OF SHAMEEEE
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 83d
I prefer bags.