Is it really wrong? See above regarding double negatives. What's "wrong"? Use of ain't, use of a double negative, and "dropping the g." He probably wasn't the first to say it and he definitely wasn't the last. Since till means "up to" (it's different from "till the soil" or "cash in the till"), until is actually a bit redundant.Īl Jolson said this in the first talking motion picture, The Jazz Singer.
#Quotes about endings shakespeare plus#
In fact, until was formed from und (an Old Norse word meaning "as far as, up to") plus till. Would you rather Berra had said "Do not believe at any point that the remainder of the game is a foregone conclusion"? As to till rather than until or 'til, that is in fact not an error at all till is even older than until, and is still accepted in common use. Is it really wrong? Logical tautology - the game is over when it's over, obviously - is not a grammatical error, and it can be quite useful as a rhetorical device, because it trades on the different uses of a word. Many an erudite reader has read "And so to bed" in the diary of Samuel Pepys without emitting a peep about it - and that begins with a conjunction too. It's usually a bit less formal, but it's misguided to say it's actually wrong. Is it really wrong? As covered in " It's totally okay to write incomplete sentences," there are sentences that can use an adverb as the predicate rather than filling extra space needlessly with added verbs. What's "wrong"? This sentence has no verb. This is from a cartoon by Peter Arno showing a designer walking away from a crashed plane.
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