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Friday, May 6, 2011

The Most Wrong Way Possible

          
           I personally can't stand people who use incorrect grammar. I understand that everyone makes mistakes every once in a while, but sometimes people misuse grammar entirely too often for it to be a mistake. There are a few thing that especially just eat away at my sanity that people seem to do on a daily basis. Here are a few of the most annoying mistakes people tend to make:
  1. Using double negatives, and not correcting yourself
  2. Not using 'is, has, have', or any other form of be other than 'be' itself
  3. Saying 'on tomorrow' instead of just 'tomorrow'
          Thee grammar mistakes tend to be a habit more than anything else, and would be easily corrected if the person was willing to put in the effort not to sound like an ignorant fool. The people who want to correct their mistakes, I have no problem with. However, when I hear someone say that they are proud of sing incorrect grammar all the time, I want to slap them across the face. I know that when you make mistakes while speaking and someone corrects you, it can make you very embarrassed. Most people, however, tend to take the correction and use more effort in making sure they speak correctly. I am not saying that I am perfect in my use of grammar, in fact, I am the first to point out when something I said was grammatically incorrect. I also am the first to admit that I sometimes fudge my grammar on purpose to make a point. Apparently though, some people take pride in their ignorance of the English language.
         The reason that I am so irked about those who take pride in what is, in essence, blatant ignorance, is because of something a girl said in one of my classes today. This girl is always talking, she is like background noise, always their, even with headphones in. Anyways, today I caught some of her conversation, or rather her incessant rambling, and she was talking about how she will never try to fix her grammar, and how everyone was always correcting her. Apparently, she had misspoken, and her friend and instantly corrected, on a reflex, and the girl replied with, "I don't care, I speak incorrectly all the time. My English teacher don't even try to correct me no more." I almost started banging my head against the wall half-way through her little speech. Perhaps I should also say that she has a very southern accent, which only added to the stupidity of her speech.
          After she had declared herself a hopeless person, she proceeded to talk about how all of her elder family members tended to correct her. She said her dad and mom corrected her frequently, and her grandmother always corrected in an instant. This seemed to amuse her for some odd reason, instead of making her embarrassed. Then she started speaking about hoping to find a guy who could put up with her incorrect grammar. Then she said, "Dude, I hope some guy tries to correct me, and when he does, I am going to correct him in the most wrong way possible."
          Please for the sake of your well-being and for others' sanity, if you use incorrect grammar, don't go around proclaiming how doing so is the best thing to happen to you, and how you won't change it for the world.


*"She said, she ain't take it to this degree, well, let's agree to disagree..."-Kanye

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