davdud101
I'm no grammar genius, but does anybody notice how often people destroy the use of "and I" vs "and me" in the English language? I think American public schools have a tendency to say "ALWAYS 'and I' " without really giving a reason, and NEVER really teaching the alternative.
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Right ... start with the educational system!
 
I came to America when I was 16 and they placed me on the 9th grade ... rest of high school, junior college, university ... do you know how many grammar classes I had?
 
NONE
 
Took me 9 years to be able to get through Junior College to be able to get into UCSB, which was a bit of a push and scary, since my grades were not good, because I had no English to work with ... to make the grade passable! But when I graduated from UCSB in 1982, I can tell you that it was my highest grade point ever ... 3.25GPA ... although the theater department ripped me off what should have been a BFA instead of a generic steaming heap of a BA degree!

So, like we all need more BS peeps in the world with BS degrees like to be smarter and stuff and  like anyone can draw you know lik Scooter and whatever.......just get a BA degree and be done with it like for real coz I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world.....

Mesh
So, like we all need more BS peeps in the world with BS degrees like to be smarter and stuff and  like anyone can draw you know lik Scooter and whatever.......just get a BA degree and be done with it like for real coz I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world.....

it just tells you the BS from American Universities everywhere ... it's not about the students, unless they are in this and that place and supposedly did this and that ... at which point the school is not a part of the process at all ... !!!
 
It's a bad joke!

We all know what BS is, MS is just More of the Same, and PhD is just Piled Higher and Deeper. 

Moshkito

Mesh
So, like we all need more BS peeps in the world with BS degrees like to be smarter and stuff and  like anyone can draw you know lik Scooter and whatever.......just get a BA degree and be done with it like for real coz I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world.....

it just tells you the BS from American Universities everywhere ... it's not about the students, unless they are in this and that place and supposedly did this and that ... at which point the school is not a part of the process at all ... !!!
 
It's a bad joke!

Apart from the jokes......unlike other countries, the subject content that's taught at Uni's in the US are rarely connected (if at all). You just have to get a good grade in any particular subject and any previous or future classes in that subject are only remotely linked (especially obvious in mathematics). So you end up becoming a somewhat rounded jack of all trades, but master of none.
 
In most other countries (that had the old British system), there's a very steady and methodical system set up where you have to completely understand your studies. If you don't understand a particular year's subject matter, you simply got left behind and won't get accepted or are unable to go to the next class level (until you finish the previous material). This system works well as from grade 1 until college is completed, the "dots are connected".     

My all-time favorite intentional use of bad grammar was done by Gore Vidal.  In the novel Duluth, he had a pretentious butler answer the phone and ask "Whom shall I say is calling she?".
 
OT, but one of my pet gripes about misuse of the language is: "such and such increased to a crescendo".  All kinds of journalists do this, and not just sports commentators.

jamesg1213
Oh yes. Then there's answering every question starting with 'So,' and ending on the upward inflective.
 
'What are you studying at college?'
 
'So, I'm doing media studies?'
 

 

So?

The colours of this topic turned out to be quite colorful. Maybe a little shade off center though nonetheless quite centred.
 
Edited to correct spelling - FWIW

"So and so and me". makes me mental
 
It seems regional as many intelligent and learned people I know say that but they are from Michigan fwiw.

Two of my "favorites" () are "meteoric rise" and "could care less" but the ones that are really annoying are "sup" and "where you at?"