Grumpy Grammar Grinch Grouses...

[Trek420]

Bad grammar in conversation often comes from the home. When you criticize a child's language, you're criticizing their homelife and maybe even their culture.

Often they are following certain grammatical rules. They are not standard English grammatical rules, but they are rules.

Veronica

Language is a beautiful evolving thing. But at a certain point isn't it the job of the entire village idiot that raises the child and even educates adults because we never stop learning to say "you ain't going to get or keep a job if you can't use standard written and spoken English" ?

I'm not criticizing, I'm not saying anything about your parents, family and culture, I'm just sayin' at a certain point it's like showing up for the interview with the knuckle tattoo. I can express myself any way I choose off the job but at work I will need clear standard English.

I'm a teeny tiny itsy bitsy cog working in a to remain unnamed large company. We recently got a chat application so you could be on our website right now, it says "click to chat" and you reach me, or another rep.

I was surprised, shocked really during the training .... it's cross cultural, racial, age, height .... there were many of us being taken off the application and told "sorry, you're fine on the phone but you can't write your way out of a paper bag".

Well, the company could say "This is your job. We're doing everything online now." What if I could not write?

Like the bumpersticker says "if you can read this, thank a teacher"