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Subject: [Leica] re: 'merican language
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Jan 31 08:48:21 2006

Hey - who you talkin' bout - Man went to Andover, Yale, and Harvard Business
School. ;-)


On 1/31/06 11:40 AM, "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> wrote:

> B.D.,
> Howard wrote, ".......educated individuals........"
> Douglas
> 
> B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> And then there's our President... ;-)
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/31/06 11:20 AM, "Howard L Ritter, Jr" <hlritter@mindspring.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> In my field, medicine, I am appalled at how many educated individuals 
>>> commit
>>> so many crude, and flagrantly ungrammatical, errors in speech. I hear
>>> registered nurses, BSNs with college bachelor's degrees, saying things 
>>> like
>>> "I seen her yesterday" or "I been there twice already" or "He don't do 
>>> that
>>> any more". I even know a thoughtful and cultured radiation oncologist who
>>> regularly commits mis-usages like "I discussed the plan with he and his
>>> wife".
>>> 
>>> So much fun, being a language curmudgeon!
>>> 
>>> --howard
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Douglas Nygren" <dnygr@cshore.com>
>>> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 8:44 PM
>>> Subject: [Leica] re: 'merican language
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    
>>> 
>>>> Seth, between you and I, people don't speak so good as they used to. It
>>>> amazes me how many "educated" people use a subject instead of an object
>>>> with the preposition "between."
>>>> 
>>>> I make my share of mistakes. I guess I shouldn't complain.
>>>> 
>>>> Doug
>>>> 
>>>> 
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