| Barbara Carlson 2005-02-12, 1:34 pm |
| Almost no one ever uses whom--it is as if the word didn't exist, and proven
is used so often when proved is proper. When I was in school proven such as
"has been proven" was accepted, but not preferred, but now you see "it is
proven"--and several other uses of it that are just plan wrong. I don't
know whether it is wrong, but using "that" instead of "who" for people bugs
me, i.e. the man that invented it, etc. And grammatical errors in
commercials--these are scripted!!! There's no excuse, and they are aired
over and over again.
I can understand things like misuse of the subjunctive (if it were, not if
it was) and like instead of as if, though it still bugs me , but some of
the errors are blatant. We all make some of these mistakes in spoken
English, but in scripted or written, there is no excuse.
Barb C.
"kathycarp" <kathycarp@comcastprivacy.net> wrote in message
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>I find errors in almost every book I read. The last one I remember was when
>a business was letting people go, and they called it "personal cutbacks".
> Fingernails on a chalkboard.
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