It's your language. You use it every day. You should strive to master it. My late mother, a 27-year, graduate-level professor of English, embedded that in my brain once upon a time. I’m not nearly as smart as she was, but I’m sharp enough to recognize that the vast majority of native-born Americans can’t speak or write English worth a lick.
Monday, December 19, 2005
Sympathy?
One of the other teachers I work with kept telling me all day about the "Sympathy" music she brought for rest time. She was so excited about it and kept talking about it all day long. I had no idea what sympathy music was, so was curious to hear this. Uh yeah....it wasn't sympathy music...it was symphony music. God help us all.
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This must be the one that was reading to the kids about the peasants?
Amazing. And this college educated person is educating someone's children. I can see her producing scores of little Dubyas!
She must be fired.
This is being dumb not bad at English!
Ah, but it is. Misuse of your native language is not only dumb, it's bad (i.e. bad English).
My favorite was in a mail sent by someone in my company's administrative department. We had a corporate party and it was set to end rather late at night so for employees who wanted to they would arrange a cab and have secuirty personnel escort them. The mail said "Women employees cna make use of our escort services". I was like "Lucky ladies we guys get nothing like that".
Oh. My. God. Snatch her teaching license away right this minute.
Hi Jules - I am Peter's sister and would like to thank you for your visit to my site and your good wishes.
I hope you have a very Happy New Year.
*LOL*
:) But you just gotta have "sympathy" for that person... or is that "Symphony?" lol
June
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