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1986 Mercury Grand Marquis Tudor in Waco, TX - $1400
1985 Ford F-150 XLT Lariat
1990 Mercury Grand Marquis LS (POTM March 2017 & May 2019 - gone, but not forgotten)
1995 Mustang SVT Cobra coupe (cream puff)
1966 Mustang coupe (restoration in-progress)
Me too. "Break" and "work" do not belong in the same sentence, talk about an oxymoron!
I was on my break at work last night, chugging fake gatorade to keep from dying from the heat... I dunno, seems like they kind of do belong in the same sentence sometimes?
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Slicktop '91 GS HO 4.30 rear. '82 Mark VI Tudor HO, '90 F-150 XLT, '62 project Heep, '89 Arizona Waggin' and '88 donor in PA, getting combined.
Need to sale..... break work. Boy do I hate seeing this all the time in ads.
It makes even less sense when they have "Need to sale" and "For sell" in the same ad.
—John
1985 Ford F-150 XLT Lariat
1990 Mercury Grand Marquis LS (POTM March 2017 & May 2019 - gone, but not forgotten)
1995 Mustang SVT Cobra coupe (cream puff)
1966 Mustang coupe (restoration in-progress)
In a similar vein...and this one I know is used on the forum sometimes...
Leaving out "to be" and not changing the verb properly. As in, the A/C needs charged (instead of charging). The car needs washed (instead of washing). The garage needs tidied (instead of tidying). Ditto when referring to the action in the past tense.
Then there's the misuse of "anymore" in a positive/affirmative context which is hard to describe but increasingly common.
These appear to be common Midwesternisms...I certainly hear a lot of them in Detroit.
I firmly believe that if you are trying to sell anything within an ad/internet forum etc.. that you should try real damn hard to make everything clear as possible and NOT give potential buyers any reasons to think negatively of you. Your ad is the ONLY thing potential buyers know of you at this point and if you make really blatant errors within your ad they may not even bother contacting you.
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