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Good Grammar... please come back
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Is it I ( Not is it Me !)....or ........... are there any other people out there ......who hate/s bad grammar ? ------{ perhaps that should be.... "is there ....people" ( sing noun )...but it doesnt sound right.}
it is so prevalent these days especially on the telly. Even news readers say "I was SAT there, or I was STOOD there instead of, what we were all taught at school , i.e. "seated" and "Standing". The BBC announcers are no exception to this either. --- what a dreadful inheritance this is from what was always regarded as the pillar of English excellence.
Perhaps its because so many interfering govt education departments have seen in their wisdom to eradicate all proper grammar from school curricula over so many years. Also when we were greeted with "how are you?" we always said "fine thank you ". where /when did this Americanism crawl in from ? -- " Im good !" Surely this latter was meant to signify how excellent you were at something ......... but certainly not Grammar , it seems .
it is so prevalent these days especially on the telly. Even news readers say "I was SAT there, or I was STOOD there instead of, what we were all taught at school , i.e. "seated" and "Standing". The BBC announcers are no exception to this either. --- what a dreadful inheritance this is from what was always regarded as the pillar of English excellence.
Perhaps its because so many interfering govt education departments have seen in their wisdom to eradicate all proper grammar from school curricula over so many years. Also when we were greeted with "how are you?" we always said "fine thank you ". where /when did this Americanism crawl in from ? -- " Im good !" Surely this latter was meant to signify how excellent you were at something ......... but certainly not Grammar , it seems .
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This is modern Britain, languages change. It's what people say and what they mean that counts - as long as the message is transmitted clearly and understood accurately then that's all that really matters. There's no use in getting worked up about it, I think you'll find that the Britain of the past where we all spoke perfect English is a piece of patchwork idealism. The BBC may have used received pronunciation and accurate grammar in the 1950s, for example, but the rest of the country was not.
"I was stood on" and "I was sat" is more true to how people were speaking in East London, Liverpool, Manchester and across the country even as far back as the turn of the 20th century. Regarding "I'm good", it's just a fashionable thing to say at the moment, that's all. People *know* it's not correct grammar but it sounds cool to the youth on the street, that's all.
"I was stood on" and "I was sat" is more true to how people were speaking in East London, Liverpool, Manchester and across the country even as far back as the turn of the 20th century. Regarding "I'm good", it's just a fashionable thing to say at the moment, that's all. People *know* it's not correct grammar but it sounds cool to the youth on the street, that's all.
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