I'm not especially defensive about not ending a sentence with a preposition in general. I can understand using sentence structure such as "The things I put up with!" or such. The truly grammar-religious may claim you're going to hell, but I wouldn't give it a second thought.
That said, there's something unforgivably ghetto-trash --in a bad way-- about asking "Where you at?" instead of "Where are you?" or "Where is the paper at?" instead of "Where is the paper?" It grates on my ears like fingernails on a chalkboard. It's like they don't understand even understand what the words are that they're speaking.
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Date: 2009-08-18 03:00 am (UTC)That said, there's something unforgivably ghetto-trash --in a bad way-- about asking "Where you at?" instead of "Where are you?" or "Where is the paper at?" instead of "Where is the paper?" It grates on my ears like fingernails on a chalkboard. It's like they don't understand even understand what the words are that they're speaking.