Adventures in grammar …

… Communication Breakdown. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Teachers no longer pay such close attention to errors in grammar and spelling. Instead, they leave it to the spellchecker. Jovin’s fieldwork confirms that teachers, by failing to teach the basics, are making millions of us look foolish. Hal, a businessman in Decatur, Ala., confuses "accept" and "except." Tara in Venice Beach confuses "affect" and "effect." No one seems to know the difference between "further" and "farther." And then there is the morass of confusion and rage that is the lie/lay distinction.