Ok, let’s start by confessing that I’m a charter member of the “grammar police”. That said, I have witnessed and endured the gradual destruction of the English language for many years in silent dismay. But the time has come for me to stand up and be counted because the butchering of our language is getting so ugly that simple communication from those who should know better is dangerously close to unintelligible (sorry about that word). When pros who read the news or weather or perform any announcing job are so out-of-touch will the proper use of words and sentences that they obscure the meaning of what they’re saying—it’s time to STOP and re-boot. Some examples of the English language massacre: A national newscast with a weatherman who, describing a cold front moving in, said this front is moving “less fast” than the previous front. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? A golf broadcast analyst described a golf hole as “more easy” than the others. DID SHE MEAN EASIER? And a local weather personality insists on saying :it will be more hot today than yesterday”. DOES HE MEAN HOTTER? Ok, you say this is “nit picky” but folks we’re on a slippery slope here. And if one more pro says “git”, I’ll go off the deep end. Soon pathetic grammatical abuse will totally destroy any hope of communicating with each other. I guess we’ll go back to the grunting days of the neanderthal world; although I hardly think of that as progress.
As a test, see if you can spot the errors in this sentence:
There’s lots of ways to see less clouds as we git into the evening hours.
ANSWER: “There’s” means “there is” but it should be “there are”. “Less clouds” should be “fewer clouds”–always use “fewer” when referring to numbers. And “git” is simply not in the dictionary.
I AINT’ GONNA SAY NO MORE!! NUFF SAID!!
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