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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bu.edu!wang!wizvax!buscard!dand
  2. From: dand@buscard.fidonet.org (Dan Davidson)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  4. Subject: The airwaves
  5. Message-ID: <gate.JP50NB1w164w@buscard.fidonet.org>
  6. Date: 21 Jul 92 20:42:29 GMT
  7. Lines: 18
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  9.  
  10. All the problems with English usage don't surprise me, and shouldn't
  11. surprise anybody, given the pervasive bad examples in both broadcast
  12. and print media.
  13.  
  14. Advertisers appear to take pride in being ungrammatical.  The others
  15. seem merely guilty of being ignorant of the stuff they work with.
  16.  
  17. It would be bad enough were the bad grammar the entire indictment.
  18. They misspell, misuse and egregiously mispronounce words, too.  If
  19. newsmen and newspersons, commentators (why not commenters?),
  20. commercial announcers, lecturers, public speakers and politicians all
  21. botch the language, what hope is there for all of us who never utter a
  22. word?
  23.  
  24.  
  25. ... THINK! or thwim.
  26. --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
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