We love and appreciate your information, but please, please , people on these podcasts and on TV as well must use proper English. Please do not say “him and I” it is “he and I”. There are a few, but really poignant, screaming errors that people make with their English on these broadcasts and it’s very aggravating because it just makes yo…
We love and appreciate your information, but please, please , people on these podcasts and on TV as well must use proper English. Please do not say “him and I” it is “he and I”. There are a few, but really poignant, screaming errors that people make with their English on these broadcasts and it’s very aggravating because it just makes you look uneducated, which we know you are not! Please be more careful.
If your first language was not English, and you learned correct grammar when studying English, or if you were taught by nuns in a parochial school, I fully understand your dismay at what's been happening to grammar. I've been equally dismayed, but had to let go of my irritation because the "disease" was spreading everywhere.
Have you noticed "more better," "more happier," "more simpler," etc. etc.? And to your point with pronouns, I most often hear "Me and him/her/Sandra...." People you would think are educated talk this way, including newscasters, politicians, and commentators.
Clearly, the rules of grammar are no longer taught to native English speakers. The entire population now sounds like this, so very few realize that it sounds uneducated.
It's an indisputable fact that language evolves. That is my only consolation.
Edit: Case in point, added after I scrolled down a few comments to one woman, a retired high school teacher (!) who wrote:
<<(I have never noticed the typos - so they obviously don't effect [sic] the info). >>
Nice job of saying no one really cares about proper English like in past decades. Lol. Not necessarily a bad thing, but one older persons should adapt, just a smidge. It's just the way it is.
We love and appreciate your information, but please, please , people on these podcasts and on TV as well must use proper English. Please do not say “him and I” it is “he and I”. There are a few, but really poignant, screaming errors that people make with their English on these broadcasts and it’s very aggravating because it just makes you look uneducated, which we know you are not! Please be more careful.
Hi Lynn,
I'm Lynn also. :-)
If your first language was not English, and you learned correct grammar when studying English, or if you were taught by nuns in a parochial school, I fully understand your dismay at what's been happening to grammar. I've been equally dismayed, but had to let go of my irritation because the "disease" was spreading everywhere.
Have you noticed "more better," "more happier," "more simpler," etc. etc.? And to your point with pronouns, I most often hear "Me and him/her/Sandra...." People you would think are educated talk this way, including newscasters, politicians, and commentators.
Clearly, the rules of grammar are no longer taught to native English speakers. The entire population now sounds like this, so very few realize that it sounds uneducated.
It's an indisputable fact that language evolves. That is my only consolation.
Edit: Case in point, added after I scrolled down a few comments to one woman, a retired high school teacher (!) who wrote:
<<(I have never noticed the typos - so they obviously don't effect [sic] the info). >>
Nice job of saying no one really cares about proper English like in past decades. Lol. Not necessarily a bad thing, but one older persons should adapt, just a smidge. It's just the way it is.
Yes, exactly. We must avoid fuddy-duddism at all cost!