OH,
I have to say this right now.
I CANNOT STAND "professional" people who are inept when it comes to public speaking.
In years gone by, a politician would get to a mike and was able to muddle through a speech or make a comment that was almost perfect.
These days I am effing amazed that a person, born and raised in America, gets to a premier school, gets a law degree, becomes a judge and possibly the next SCJ for the United States and still cannot use English properly.
This is a peeve of mine that shows how petty I am. My dad had a thick accent, never really got the hang of the language -It smell like hell in here!
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But he made pretty damn sure that his kids were schooled and were able to speak the King's English properly.
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To hear a person, who has more education that I'll ever see, hack and mangle sentences makes me shake my head and wonder.
I gots the idea that there be a problem with some thing that don't make so much sense when you hear it the first time.
The more I see and hear people that went to a uni/college, get wonderful jobs, yet, cannot seem to speak english properly, lets me know that no one took the time to correct them. It makes me cringe, not because I am any better or smarter. It just irritates me that we look the other way when we hear it.
Wisdom, brains, common sense should never be measured against the way a person speaks, but I wonder how a smart person could never realize how they sound when they speak.
Originally Posted by RICHARD
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