Briefly: 14-year-old girl and newborn son go missing
Briefly: 14-year-old girl and newborn son go missing
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
New Haven police have called on the public to come forward with information on the whereabouts of 14-year-old Myah Moye and her day-old son Myshaun Moye. City Hall spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga announced their disappearance to the city community in a press release Tuesday, urging anyone with information to contact the New Haven Police Department. The pair has been missing since Monday evening, when the Department of Children and Families arrived at Moye’s home to obtain custody of her son. The DCF serves to protect the well-being of children and their families.
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None 3 years ago
From my perspective(and never having the South influence my cultural or educational paradigm), I have to say I'm taken aback by the contention that "to go missing" is some how unacceptable. It is a phrase that gives the impression of an unexplained disappearance, and has a slight of pathos and mystery compared to having said "the 14-year-old disappeared". It is slightly casual for a formal piece, but this is a newspaper, not a legal brief. I'd be hard pressed to believe it counts as bad grammar per se. Americans tend to be more casual about using words in combination with "go" and "get" instead of finding verbs to express a particular action, but, please, the phrase "they have gone missing" is perfectly acceptable. Your example of "done gone missing" is wrong because of the "done" part, not the "gone missing" part.
None 3 years ago
Carmen: When did "gone missing," that illiterate phraseology from the rural South - as in "we ain't Billy Ray, he done gone missing" - become acceptable speech among the allegedly educated? As a product of the rural South myself, I can assure you "gone missing" and "go missing" were never used i writing except to signify a would-be "authentic" dialect before just a handful of years ago, and judging by your surname, I'd hazard a guess that you weren't raised speaking this way either. What gives?
None 3 years ago
Robert,
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