the Kübler-Ross model (aka the five stages of grief) doesn’t seem to have any room in it for the stage that can only be described as “so what the fuck happens now, and where do i go from here? how am i supposed to go on continuing to do the same shit each and every fucking day?”
.. your network administrator is on his Blackberry, frantically googling “how to reset DNS servers”, that the likelihood is you will not have the internet at work on that day
Having complained long and loud in the past regarding the death of grammar in contemporary society as perpetrated by the media, I am not going start again.
I will however vent my feelings on how the lack of clear pronunciation has widely propagated a lot of grammatical errors. Is it just sheer laziness, or lack of understanding how words string together? After all, language is a little more than the ability to sequentially put together grunts and sounds so as to convey some sort of meaning, ever so slightly.
What’s wrong with this statement:
If I knew it was wrong, I would of not done it.
I can bet that 3 out of 4 Americans will say that it seems perfectly fine. I would wager that if I showed this following sentence the same 3 of 4 would still think both sentences hold valid.
Once again, I blame the press – grammatical errors are dime a dozen in the printed media, while it appears to no longer be a prerequisite to have half a brain or an understanding of the English language to get a job on television or radio.
Of course, I don’t get how blogs like these and that Twitting fandango and user-generated content media like Wiki stopped being communication forms and actually became sources of information – I still have people in the graduate course that I’m doing in project management cite personal blogs as references. Aaargh!