Graduated College?

One can aruge that any expression is a colloquialism, to the extent that it is used in spoken language. A colloquy is, after all, just a conversation. I would suggest that it is simply a reasonable usage with which you are not familiar.

I agree with you, but it is useless to cling to 'graduate from college', or so it seems.

Back in the day, I knew about graduated flasks, with some volumetric measures.
And so that worked as a comparative re going through high school, which we graduated from.

But, as time passed, all sorts of folks, some of them smart, graduated high school (cringe) Like they etched a glass tube without and 'ed after it. Too hard, I suppose.

I still cringe. I'm not sure what year this happened, but I take it as a nonsensical move.

I always assumed it one of those British useages that crept into the language. Kind of like "gone missing". Sounds kind of cultured, if you know what I mean.

what was one of those british usages? Graduating college has made no sense to me, rather like dicing it into fourths and expecting a new king.

I think "gone missing" is one of them. I would just say something was lost, or someone just went away.

I don't get it.

THAT is correct.
The other way is a crude mistake, borne of ignorance.





David

Thanks David, I feel better.

Thanks ossobuco, I feel better.
I really like the "graduated flask"!

Is "graduated flask" an euphemism for 'snockered'?

Well, I've modified my strong opinions since my first postings on this matter - I'm more live and let live on the usage now. I've since read all sorts of excellent writers say they graduated college and it's worn my resistance down. Language is a living thing and it does change. Aside from being an old stickler who still says "I graduated from", I also enjoy word play, even making up words with or without a glass of wine, and enjoy the intermixing of languages.

So, I'm raising a white flag, but I still add "from".

Hah, no. Common lab flasks.. as were graduated cylinders.

It's only used in US English, isn't it?

Americans know how we speak HERE,
but not in other places, unless we 've lived there to hear it.

I hope that u enjoyed your vacation in America.





David

All that you've said here, Osso, is,

Aside from being an old stickler who still says what is natural in her dialect, ...