Poor grammar is disappointing and decidedly distracting in formal audio reviews.

@gents,

"Sometimes, you have to go with the flow. If it's not for you, it's not for you, but, it's not like we're turning out flexible, well read readers (or listeners) anymore. I'm guessing that in the not too distant future, 'tweets' and Instagram posts will be as nuanced a reading adventure as Americans, born and not yet born, will ever see."



Yes, this is a facet of all literature as it endlessly gets reinterpreted through the ages.

It also explains why we may all have different favourite authors.

Chaucer, Dickens, Orwell, Miller, Proust, Wells, Maugham, Fitzgerald = ok

Shakespeare, Shaw, Woolf, Joyce, Beckett, Burroughs, Kerouac = not so ok.

But that's just me, YMMV.

At work we have a plain English department dedicated to promoting good grammar and clarity of meaning via elimination of jargon etc (or at least the meaning they want to convey) but as of yet I cannot recall  ever reading anything of interest in their memos.

Thanks to those who mentioned my comment.

In case others think I am wrong, our former governor and legislature wanted to reduce or eliminate state scholarships to state universities for those star A+ 4.0 students who qualify IF they do not major in a money-making subject.  As he stated, "We don't need any more anthropology majors."

(HINT:  His DAUGHTER majored in anthropology.  Guess blood is NOT thicker than a wad of bills slipped into your pocket at a "fund raiser.")

This genius, who committed the largest medicare fraud in history, is now one of our Senators.  The bigger the thief, the more likely you are to be elected in our state, anyway.  He will run for President, I am sure, and may win.  Why not?  Money talks louder than grammatically correct usage any day.

Oh, he has over $250 million dollars in the bank, so fraud pays, but hey, he is NOT an elitist.  How could he be as a former master thief?  All he cares about are the "little people."  You believe that, right?  Right!

Cheers!

@wrm57 "exorcised"

@acresverde , Were you correcting me or simply straining after a homophonic pun? I do hope the latter because "exercised about" is proper if idiomatic usage, meaning "agitated about," whereas "exorcised about" would be a semantic and grammatical mystery. Just sayin’....

@richopp , welcome to the new empire of fungible ignorance! Reminds me of when the Texas state legislature floated a bill 10 years ago to outlaw the teaching of critical thinking in high school. The stated reason? Because it encourages the questioning of authority. Can’t have that!

Texas just did it again with the canceling of a talk on a new book, Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth, at the Texas State History Museum in Austin, Tx., just hours before it was to begin.

All the best,
Nonoise