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Grrl Power #792 - Patreon 2x

🕑 Added 2019-11-28 11:05:59 +0000 UTC

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Mike

I love how Dave does his Succubi in casual settings.

Lia

Extra Pro Tip: "Make do" was popularized by an elitist ass who was poking fun at the working class by intentionally misunderstanding the phrase to color her subject matter as illiterate. (Think of Twain's language and grammar use in Huckleberry Finn.) We use 'thru' and 'nite' and 'lite.' It is becoming popular enough that it will someday soon become common usage and this argument will likely be forgotten for that one. Idiomatic language and common usage keep reshaping language every day. Some us just don't like it. 'Make do' is problematic for me in the way that 'ebonics' is. It reforges the language in a way that is understandable in a very short time with study. 'Make do' and 'make due' do not come up that often for me. Most people I interact with 'get by,' 'MacGuyver,' or 'make it work.' To me, to 'make due' is the same as 'par for the course' — You are providing that which is necessary to get by, which used to be a monetary term, but was borrowed and applied to anything that works enough to keep moving forward, making it an idiomatic phrase. I find it telling that the only argument I have ever seen for 'make do' is a matter of opinion where sight and sound are concerned. Some try to act like adding a noun to a verb phrase is verboten, which makes me laugh. Some people even argue from the position that 'due' and 'do' are homophones in some places. It seems that arguing one's opinion from an arbitrary position has never been limited to the Internet, as this argument has been going for over a century now. I forgot to add that Mr. Gilberg is right about one thing: the accepted usage that won out is 'make do.' The Spock in me dies a little every time I see it written that way.