language is only as good as the purpose it serves. if it sounds better or is easier to say and conveys the same meaning, i'll use it - grammar nazis be damned!
(i'm actually in the middle of reading "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" :D )
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Jeeze, you try and make a joke...
... or should that just be "you try and make"?
You try TO make a joke, TheGrobe. Haven't you been listening to Professor Loomis at all?!
Technically speaking, I think I actually tried and failed to make.
All grammatical rules only describe the way that language is being used and understood. If someone uses grammar outside of these rules but is still understood then the descriptive grammar rules are in need of change.
If any linguist who tries to tell you otherwise needs to go back to school.
This is one of the reasons why quoting a dictionary will almost never win you an arguement (the exception being of course if you are argueing what the definition in the oxford dictionary is... a rather silly arguement really seeing how all you need do is look at the dictionary)
My pet peeve - people that don't understand that they only lose because they play loosely. It is making me chuckle less and less hearing people talk about their loosses or is it looses... (read batgirls definition of a pet peeve to understand I'm not about to go nato at people that do this)
You can try and solve. You can also try and fail to solve. I don't see the problem....
I don't want to get embroiled in the whole 'try and' / 'try to' thing, but "solve" is a transitive verb, so it requires an object: try and/to solve what?