[pianotech] OT: Grammar

[paul bruesch]

Terry, We could sit and pick nits all day!!  e.g.
"She went to the store with Jim and I."
"Please talk to Bob or myself for more information."
"Definitely" this or that. (Tech support/billing support)
"Absolutely." (Radio/TV interviews)
(The last two aren't incorrect, just abusively overused.)

My kids (19 and 16) are both enabled with quite good grammar skills, but
when they talk to their friends they sometimes lapse into the casual "I
seen" construct.

I do know that schools do still teach grammar. The friend I mentioned at
the beginning of my original post is a Kindergarten teacher who teaches
non-native-English-speaking kids... she has to attend a three-day grammar
conference this month. She has to teach about nouns, verbs, adjectives,
paragraphs. Yes, to non-native-English-speaking kindergarten kids. I
suppose the future preservation of English grammar may be in the hands of
such kids.


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Terry Beckingham <t46xd8jb at xplornet.com>wrote:

> Since you brought it up...
>
> Two of my pet peeves are:
>
> People who say "I seen" when they should have said "I have seen" or "I saw"
>
> Many people now say "Me and him" when they should have said "He and I".
>
> Do schools no longer teach grammar??? I feel that the English language is
> deteriorating rapidly.
>
> Terry Beckingham
> (just nit picking)
>
>
> At 09:35 AM 12/4/2012 -0600, you wrote:
>
>> I've just been musing with a friend about grammar when I made a rather
>> humorous (to me, anyhow) discovery...
>>
>
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