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A grammar question. January 18, 2014 11:24 pm bowser

This has puzzled me for years, and I finally decided to try to find the answer.  Lo and behold, I don’t know how to search for the answer.  Here’s the question.

I attended high school.  I went to high school, and eventually graduated FROM high school.  I no longer went to high school.

I keep hearing people say “I graduated high school” or “she graduated high school”.  I wonder if they took English along the way, and yet I do know what they mean and it may be an accepted verbal formulation.   How would one find out?

I happen to believe that simply because some language can accurately convey a meaning doesn’t necessarily excuse it’s use.  ”I done that”, “No, you be there, I seen you”, are examples.

Any thoughts?

  • natural selection vs pedigree inbreeding--a core dump by ER 2014-01-19 07:53:11
    • A term which gave me recent pause in my reading . . . by DanS 2014-01-20 12:42:52
      • The Brits do have their occasional barbarisms... by ER 2014-01-20 14:35:34
        • Cewl! ;^) (n/t) by DanS 2014-01-21 12:31:29

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