Go get, go see, go visit, etc.

Witzend I agree with you. I can't stand it either!

Two different actions therefore it requires a conjunction in between. A comma would only work in writing. I'm with you!

Me too !

An American import I think. I can’t stand it either.

May I add go to as well?
I often hear people say something is their go to solution or reference or help.

TBH, I don't see anything wrong with 'go to', there's nothing missing from it as there is in the other examples (go and get, go to see, go to visit etc).

OTOH

"This is the solution we should go to in order to solve the problem" "This is the 'go to' solution"

Neither of these sentences are very pretty, but I can't see that they are incorrect.

I agree about the other examples.

Germanshepherdsmum

An American import I think. I can’t stand it either.

I don’t mind it from Americans - it’s just from Brits that it sets my teeth on edge!

I've spent my whole life saying I'm "going a walk". (Not for a walk).As did my whole family .Didn't realise it was strange until I moved out of Warwickshire

In the Midlands 'going + noun'- I'm going doctor's today.

But no, does not irritate me at all. I love language/s, warts and all.

I don’t like it either.

Seems a lazy way of speaking I think Witzend

I have heard also " I'm going a walk" but in Yorkshire not Warwickshire. Also dislike "I'm going to go for a walk"

I'm going on a walk.

No idea where this is from as I've lived all over the place.

I tend to like idiomatic language even if it's technically not quite right for pedants. Also, there's a big difference, in my mind, between formal written language and casual spoken language.

My MIL used to say things like 'I got it a present' - her MT was Afrikaans though.

It annoys me too.

I started school in 1956 and in Scotland then it was drilled into us that we were never to use the verb "to get" if there were suitable alternatives.

I shudder to think what my teachers and my father would have said if I said "go get", "go find", or "go write" etc.

MaizieD

TBH, I don't see anything wrong with 'go to', there's nothing missing from it as there is in the other examples (go and get, go to see, go to visit etc).

OTOH

"This is the solution we should go to in order to solve the problem" "This is the 'go to' solution"

Neither of these sentences are very pretty, but I can't see that they are incorrect.

I agree about the other examples.

To me the first sentence is wrong because you cannot go to an abstract concept such as a solution, only to a person or place!

And "the go to solution" is even worse, as in this phrase an infinitve "go" followed by the preposition "to" are being used as an adjectival phrase.

What is wrong with saying, as I at least was taught, "the obvious solution" or "the most useful solution"?

I can’t bear it. With all due respect to our American friends, this usage has come over from the USA via TV and films. I find it grating even in this context but obviously people are allowed to use their own version of the English language in their own country. It is when it comes here that it becomes much more irritating.

My SinL in Cheshire tells me her sons are ‘going golf’. She’s from Durham, so she must’ve picked it up down there. It sounds unfinished.

sodapop

Seems a lazy way of speaking I think Witzend

I have heard also " I'm going a walk" but in Yorkshire not Warwickshire. Also dislike "I'm going to go for a walk"

To me, "I'm going to go for a walk" and similar sentences are a standard way of expressing your intended plans. That particular structure had been taught to learners of English as a foreign or second language for as many years as i can remember. Am I missing something 😕?

This has got me thinking Witzend.
I will take more notice as I am guilty of saying i.e. “go get me a broom please” to DH,
although I would not say “going walk” but “going for a walk”.
Language is interesting - and yes, sometimes annoying.

It just seems like saying the same thing twice Oldnproud. Why not say I'm going for a walk. Didn't think you could go to go.

I think you can put almost any infinitive you want after 'going' when talking about intentions or decisions for the future, sodapop, even 'to go' or 'to come'.

I get your point about it seeming, on the face of it, to be saying the same thing twice, but I think its use is perfectly acceptable in this particular structure. Each to their own, though. 🙂

Irritates me too. here they miss out a word to e.g.' going Nottingham, going Leicester.

Oldnproud, you are right. I learnt English from the age of 10. We were taught that "be going to" is used to express intention or an imminent event= I think it's going to rain/I am going to play tennis/going to go to the cinema".
"Going to go" is grammatically correct.

I am just so delighted that someone has found a new topic for Pedants' corner where threads normally revert to the same old, same old peeves by post 10.

Go figure!