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.
It's an unhill fight to get our fellow Americans to write and speak decent English...not to mention giving up Spanglish and Ebonics. The teachers don't even try that hard to ingrain good English. G.Gordon Liddy got on people for years...I hope he still does. People like to say gender when they mean sex.
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Oops, indeed. I mucked up the first comment, which was: That is unfortunate.
It's an unhill fight to get our fellow Americans to write and speak decent English...not to mention giving up Spanglish and Ebonics. The teachers don't even try that hard to ingrain good English. G.Gordon Liddy got on people for years...I hope he still does. People like to say gender when they mean sex.
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