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From: ck@ima.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Poor English (here too)
Message-ID: <515@ima.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 23:36:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 19 23:36:08 1985
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Nf-From: ima!ck    Mar 18 23:39:00 1985

Why should anybody expect today's students to learn proper grammar
when they are exposed to improper grammar everywhere they go?  For
instance, think about road signs.  Whoever thought that the sign:

			Drive Slow

was proper English?  Everytime I see that sign, I want to get out
my black magic marker and go on a sign-painting crusade.

And on television, we are constantly bombarded with poor grammar.
Take, for example, the phrase "a whole nother," as in "that's a
whole nother story."  I have heard this countless times, and I
cringe every time.

People learn from the examples set for them.  Unfortunately,
standards have slipped to a dangerous level, and people will
learn up to that level.  It's a pity.

ck.