Anymore

Dat ain't linguistics. 'tese are psychology and cybernetics.
Do you know what heuristic is?
Heuristic is a shortcut, a "what should we do if it becomes like this" kind of rule, never supported by actual theoretical base. There may be that base in the reasons for the heuristic to appear, but it becomes totally unrelated to it shortly. When did you last think why are you wearing underwear? I bet never. Because wearing underwear is dictated by social heuristic called "moral" and it doesn't require any basis.

Why am I talking about it? The fact is, majority of women use these to live. They can try and use abstract thinking, but they do it with difficulties, and, more importantly, abstract thinking is always slower. And when you can get the result faster relying on most ancient and basic kind of thinking your right hemisphere provides, why not? It's not like women get their brain lateralisation as early as men do, they get their sexual system (mainly genitalia) prioritized instead.

So she uses heuristics for using the word "anymore" and will not listen to any logic behind it. That's why, your argument shoyld be not what the word is, but how it is used correcrly with examples. Lots of examples, if you want her to learn a new, correct heuristic. But first you have to become an authority in itself in her eyes, because she won't listen to you otherwise.

P.S. Poll ain't working.

The poll is working, you have to click on the sentence of your choosing, not on the coloured bars.

Don't get your panties in a bunch. The poll is just fine as it is. And as for your statement that "everyone knew what you meant" that remains to be seen and is exactly what this thread is about.

Obviously your choice in the poll would be the opposite one from what I chose. So go and vote already.

There, I edited the poll. Please vote by ticking the appropriate checkbox.

That is EXACTLY what I mean!

Here is my belief as a speaker of English, and reader of books: Language is fluid, words adapt to new meanings, sentence structure is not set in stone. Some of the greatest works of poetry and prose have thrown old ideas out in favour of new dynamism and expressibility. We should embrace the change and nurture the future of communication.





but using `anymore' like that is an abomination!

(and urbandictionary is not the first place I would turn to for linguistic example )

Goddesses condemn.
The word "anymore" is comprised too obviously to mean anything other that "any more than this".
There are times when Japanese use the word instead of "even more", but it's because both would be それ以上 in Japanese and nuances aren't alwaqys available to people who can't even say "vi" syllable without special training.
But shame to any native English speaker who can betray his own language like that. It's betrayal of one's history and betrayal of one's conscious mind, as it is based on verbal expressions. And who can believe in a human who betrays their own self?

Urban Dictionary would be the last place to talk about "socially accepted". Simply because there's no sociak control of acceptability.
And if everyone talked proper English, it wouldn't be beoring as it wouldn't lose any of colorful words and phraseologisms. It would simply way more understandable.

Ad slang argument doesn't work here because there is a diffenece between slang and speech errors. Slang is a example of (language) evolution that has its own etymology, speech errors are result of personal developmental disorder either for internal or external reasons. It is a basic, trivial example of disontogenesis.