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I recently received an offer in the mail to refinance my mortgage with GMAC who is my current lender. The letter reads in part: "you could lower your monthly principle and interest payment"
I recently received an offer in the mail to refinance my mortgage with GMAC who is my current lender. The letter reads in part: "you could lower your monthly principle and interest payment"
I am not nitpicky on grammar. As long as you put together something coherent and structured and that obeys the basic rules of language then I have no problem. By the way, how is the highlighted text not correct (I'm curious)?
Edit: Doh! I see now. They used the wrong principle/principal. Haha...wow.
Yesterday I was doing some shopping and I heard an associate tell a customer "yes, we rised the price of this item".
It's not the first time I've heard a mistake like this one. Many people don't seem to know how to use verbs. How about teaching irregular verbs? Maybe?
Unfortunately, that's only the tip of the iceberg. Many people don't seem to know how to put a decent sentence together...can't spell... and don't know how or when to use various punctuation marks. (Then, when you bring any of this to their attention, they dismiss it as not being "relevant.")
Let's face it: when you eliminate standards, there doesn't seem to be a limit to how far things are going to fall.
It is truly amazing how the younger people speak today. People from out of our country speak better English than most people in the US. My friend is always saying, "anyways", when I say something about it she tells me that it is a "Southern" thing. I have heard News casters say this all the time, as well as, "those ones, them things and the ever famous, "they was drugged down the street"!
English as I knew it is gone. Soon so will the Library's and Bookstores.
Everywhere I look I am inundated with it. I don't mind a minor flaw here or there in writing. But, I consistently see horrific misspellings, run-on sentences, lack of paragraph structuring, incoherent themes, etc.. What makes me cringe the most is when somebody presents themself as being educated and their post looks like it was written by a third grader.
What has happened to our educational system?
Haven't you heard? All this talk about grammar and communication is just a waste of time. These skills are practically worthless in today's bu$ine$$ world. People need hard skills so they can make $$$. Who cares if it means we have a bunch of grammatically disinclined buffoons walking around? As long as they gots hard skillz and can make lots and lots of $$$, that should be all that matters.
Seriously, have you not seen how some of the engineers and others in skilled trades talk down about people with educational backgrounds in the liberal arts? Just take a glance at the Education forums on here and you'll see what I mean. These skills, according to them, are no longer in demand.
Unfortunately, that's only the tip of the iceberg. Many people don't seem to know how to put a decent sentence together...can't spell... and don't know how or when to use various punctuation marks. (Then, when you bring any of this to their attention, they dismiss it as not being "relevant.")
The phrase I hear often that I find most disturbing is "the light bulb needs replaced," or something similar. The light bulb "needs" what replaced? Since when did light bulbs have "needs?" It is an inanimate object, and as such, does not have any needs. Why do so many people have a problem using the words "to be" when necessary? Even I can understand the sentence "The light bulb needs to be replaced."
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The light bulb "needs" what replaced? Since when did light bulbs have "needs?"
It is an inanimate object, and as such, does not have any needs.
