Saturday, March 18, 2017

Except there is …

… Nigeness: No Problem.



Yes, it seems the more college-educated people there are, the more klutzy speaking and writing there is. I see "different than" everywhere now. One my own bugbears is "this begs the question," which demonstrates that the speaker or writer has no idea what "begging the question" means.

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  1. Language changes.

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  2. But the best changes happen intelligently, not by way of ignorance and incompetence.

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  3. Speaking and writing, two activities, require the plural verb, are rather than is, but that creates a klutzy syntax, doesn't it?

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