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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] grammar question
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 20:14:43 +0100
Aside also from the small matter of "it's" as the third word!  AARGH! 

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Piers            

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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Piers Hemy
Sent: 29 May 2008 20:11
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] grammar question


Aside from it's "popularity" as an adverising jingle, I do agree that it is
not standard English usage.  The first person singular of the present tense
of the verb "to love" should normally be "I love it" (present simple).  The
present progressive (or continuous) "I am loving it" is used to describe
events in progress.  Arguably, in the case of the fast food to which the
jingle applies, that is appropriate - you may be "lovin'" it now, but give
it a few minutes and you'll feel a bit different. 

And I am ignoring the small matter of orthography - that ain't grammar in my
book :-)

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Piers 
             

-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of swisspace
Sent: 29 May 2008 19:37
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] [OT] grammar question

My son was doing his german homework and the exercise was punctuation and
the sentence read " I'm lovin' it " was grammatically incorrect, but I think
it is correct, am I right?

The less English I speak the more I doubt my ability

It reminds me of another question about it "reduce to the max" which I think
is impossible.

sorry but I don't know of a better source of grammer experts than this list.

Thanks IanW

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