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.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Frequent Flier
“Members of Steve Erwin’s family is speaking publicly…” –Kristine Johnson, NBC News Early Today, 06 September 2006
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This news chick is never going to get it. This is her third honor here.
How sad. I gave my ex-husband some documents to fill out and his mother took them to read them first and she had to look up most of the words she admitted because she did not know what they meant. English is her first language and it is my second language - I had no problems. WTF!
5 comments:
Is she deaf? Some things just don't sound right.
This drives me NUTS !!! It's everywhere too.
I don't feel so alone now! ;-)
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How sad. I gave my ex-husband some documents to fill out and his mother took them to read them first and she had to look up most of the words she admitted because she did not know what they meant. English is her first language and it is my second language - I had no problems. WTF!
What d'ye know - Lynn Truss has a blog!
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