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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

What can I do you for? What can I do FOR you?

Which is correct??
  

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What can I do for you? is correct. The other is used a bit, but isn't grammatically correct.

— Vorpar

  • What can I do for you?
  • is correct.
  • The other is used a bit, but isn't grammatically correct.
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What can I do for you? is correct. The other is used a bit, but isn't grammatically correct.
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Hi,

I seem to remember that What can I do you for started out as a funny line often repeated by a comedian. People began to repeat it, to be funny, and it sort of entered the language a bit in that way, so that now some people don't realize that it's not normal English.

That wouldn't be the first time something like that
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Yes; it's quite a tired old joke now.

"What can I do you for?" means "In what way may I profit from your gullibility?"

MrP
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