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[Texas Fat Boy]

A high school senior was inspecting Harvard University, where he hoped to attend the following autumn. As he was walking across the Quad, he stopped a distinguished-looking man and asked:  "Sir, can you please tell me where your library is at?"

The man looked down his nose and replied: "Son, I'm head of the English department, and I can assure you we don't end our sentences with prepositions. Re-cast your sentence in a proper form and I will reply."

"Can you tell me where your library is at, ass-hole?"

[moscooter]

 

Yup,   I fully understand the (push back) and trying to make this error in English.........funny.   However,  being as my mother was a grade school/junior high school teacher for over 30 yrs......and one of her favorite subjects was (proper English),  I can attest to getting hammered when I misspoke too.

Speak the language however you know it and like it,  just realize that some of those that hear or see your comments are going to judge you (correctley or incorrectly)..........on your usage of proper English.  Many of you won't care a bit and that's OK.........but if you're in the market for a job,  you could shoot yourself in the foot (so to speak) with incorrect usage of the language.

Overhear someone on a cell phone and they might say............"Where are ya at"    The (at) is no way at all needed to convey the question............"Where are you"...........would be correct.

Other sources of irritation to job inteviewers (I was a recruiter for years).........would be this teenibopper usage of "like" and "go".

Most of you have heard it (or use it)................Telling a story and you say.............I'm "like" or I "go"............instead of saying (I thought) or (I said)
could cost ya a better job.......................like I'm sayin'.............ya know what I mean..............

[D-N-D]