I found this atrocious piece of work on Facebook. I noticed the Instagram attribution and decided to give TheGoodQuote Instagram site a look. What I found would make a twelve-year-old cringe.
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.
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Tuesday, July 07, 2015
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Breaking The Law
Not even my favorite television show, Law and Order, gets a break. The home in this episode belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
Two Good?
I took the day off today and suffered through a daytime commercial by a consignment company named Too Good to be Threw.
Threw?
Thrown, maybe?
http://www.tgtbt.com/
Threw?
Thrown, maybe?
http://www.tgtbt.com/
Friday, February 15, 2008
Unintended
“...an unintended candle was to blame.”
-- Christina Brown, NBC Early Today, 15 February 2008, reporting the cause of a high-rise fire.
-- Christina Brown, NBC Early Today, 15 February 2008, reporting the cause of a high-rise fire.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Collision Course
“….When he collided into a barrier.” -- Melissa Rayburger, NBC Early Today, 28 March 2008
Shouldn’t it be “collided with a barrier”?
Shouldn’t it be “collided with a barrier”?
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