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This is what linguists call hypercorrection. Because people know it's grammatically wrong to say, "John and me went to the store", they apply the same reasoning to "from John and me". I think this particular usage, "between you and I", is quite
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It's a very informal and colloquial phrase. Using it too much can make you appear unsophisticated, much like the word 'like'.
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There you go.
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Actually, "and stuff" is just a filler phrase. It's not a verb, and doesn't really mean much.
Examples:
1. We went to the party. We ate and drank and stuff.
==> this means you did some eating and drinking, amongst other things
2. The
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The comma before 'however' needs to be changed to a semi-colon.
Edit: or a period/full stop.
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More accurately, that's the second person singular pronoun.
'Thou' corresponds to 'I/you/he/she'. (Nominative)
'Thee' corresponds to 'me/you/him/her'. (Accusative)
'Thy' corresponds to 'my/your/his/her'. (Possessive)
'Thine' --
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Etymological coincidence. :P
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Why people would want to eliminate accents:
-- Social stigma
There is much stigma associated with accents, depending on where you are or what accents we're talking about. The problem is accent draws too much attention to itself. Rather than
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