Monday, September 14, 2009

Now it's a Campaign


I'm just going to keep pointing them out and maybe someone will take notice. They probably won't.

Samantha Hayes last night in Nightline: "[Kanye West] should of..."
It's not local usage. It's not a debatable grammatical point. It's not some arcane aspect of English grammar that nobody cares about. She just wasn't speaking English.
It might not be her fault. She would have been reading an auto-cue. I don't know which reporter wrote the story.

Dominic Bowden on TV1 this evening: apparently someone sent Patrick Swayze's family "Well wishes".
No such expression, Dominic, so it's meaningless.
When you've been communicating as long and as well as Clive James or Margaret Mahy you can start inventing aspects of our language. Until then stick to speaking it......properly.

I like telly. I like Dominic and Samantha. But they are professional communicators so I reckon the ability to speak English is a job requirement.

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