I can bet the immortals in Paris will be nettled to see
such a sign board. For goodness sake, if Merci
beaucoup is too long, Merci bcp isn’t, however wrong it is. Anyway,
I wonder how many of their clients get to know they are being thanked.
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| If you can't see the mistake, you probably don't have that language |
Now, while I
was away{from this blog} I came across grotesque scenes, murder most foul I’d
say, people recklessly using language; violating language, is what I call it. I
have always been of the opinion that one uses a language they are most
proficient in especially when you have the choice! Now let’s get our hands a
little dirty doing a post-mortem of what you people have been doing with English. As if text language isn’t a catastrophe
enough, some people I know have extended their extravagance[with words] to other areas like
prepositions. Whether out of ignorance or not, this isn’t forgivable especially
when you have been in a designated English class for 12 years as the 8.4.4
system demands. Have a look:
We might cut the guy some slack for misspelling my
name because I am certain even auto correct wouldn’t accept that, but doesn’t it
sound awkward to make a construction such as in the noon* let alone typing it and hitting send? This chap
decided to destroy my day in the morning.
Someone told that making such mistakes or not, sometimes
depends on where you come from. Only that her depends was followed by to!
So I had no choice but ask where she’s from. Depending on, it’s neither depending
to or with which I hear quite frequently.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have gigabytes of other
such unheeding uses of language from even the least expected of folks that I have
to nurse some shock before I can bring it up here for you to see.
