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Originally Posted by wodin
Seen and saw have always been my bugaboos, some folks will invariably say they seen something when they actually saw it, or they might have seen it. I've even seen it used improperly by TV personalities who should really know better.
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The hell with TV personalities--all the talking heads that are so-called and purported "newscasters" will bungle I/Me. It drives me NUTS. It's gotten to the point that my lesser half--who has now suffered through decades of me yelling at the TV, to correct grammar/word usage (don't get me started on "begs the question"), will now shout in stereo--which is pretty funny, because he's math/science guy, not Grammar/English Lit guy. But even he's become attuned to "It's me, you jack@$$! It's not 'John and me went to..." IDIOTS!"
BUT, what can we expect? Let's face it the cult of celebrity now far overrides any cult of education/learning/erudition. We had a president who agreed to be interviewed with a woman
who sat in a tub full of cereal and milk. 'Nuff said. And no, I do NOT mean to compare or start a discussion over
which Prez had worse taste or any political horseshaft. Just saying that celebrity
outweighs any sort of real weight, in terms of education, accomplishments, capability, etc. It seems that nowadays, news coverage and the like would rather interview some twit that made himself famous on YouTube, doing something stupid, than a guy that cures cancer, or develops a treatment for some horrible disease, or sends stuff to Mars.
Therefore, no one feels as though they are compelled to educate themselves as to how to speak. Why bother? They can be famous on Youtube, or publish a barely-literate book on Amazon that can actually earn good amounts of money. It's
boggling. The Illiterocracy begins.
/rant
Hitch