Positive anymore is a
linguistic term for
upper midwest regional
dialect speakers who use the word
anymore without a negating statement.
Since that defination is of my own creation, and rather
obtuse, read the following examples to get the
gist.
A negative anyway speaker will use
anymore like this:
"They don't build toys like they used to anymore."
To me, a speaker of both positive and
negative anymore speech, that
sentence sounds perfectly normal.
But speakers of only negative anymore cringe when they hear this:
"Anymore, toys break right after you buy them."
- or -
"
Beer taste like piss anymore."
In the latter two examples,
anymore is exchangeable with the word
nowadays or
today, meaning present day.
If you only know negative anymore speech, you might think that this is stupid farmer talk. Well, you're wrong. Back in the
70s, a group of linguists surveyed famous authors and fellow linguists and inquired about their comments of positive anymore. The results weren't too good. People said things like "hick talk," "nonsensical," "completely clueless usage." How insulting, those uppity
bastards.
Millions of Americans in the
Great Plains and as far south as
Arizona and
New Mexico speak both positive anymore and negative anymore.
Anymore, people are real closed minded about language. They ought to take a look at their coinage (American), and take note of what
E Pluribus Unum means.