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.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Fight, Fight!
"He picked a rootin' tootin' maverick corruption fighter who has a stellar record of doing exactly that in Alaska, where there's some corruption that needs to be fighted."– Republican strategist Mike Murphy, Meet the Press, 31 August 2008.
2 comments:
Apparently there's some bad grammar that also needs to be "fighted." *shudder*
And lots of it! I had to rewind the DVR three or four times, and have someone else listen to it before I was 100% convinced the guy said "fighted."
Unfortunately, the Meet The Press transcript didn't capture it. :-(
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