I agree with you fully.I have as well, just posses a highschool education.However I am always striving to speek and write properly.Men in general have become lazy in speech.Gutteralise indeed.

Alan L

Thanks for visiting! I have enjoyed reading your writing (particularly your guest posts on Problogger), and it is great to have you join the community.

I would be thrilled to write on your blog! I have sent you an email with a couple of topic ideas.

Thank you for the opportunity!

- Nate

Good stuff, homie.

The misuse of too and to and the misuse of then and than.

I also can’t stand when people use “and I” incorrectly when it should be “and me”. For instance if there’s a photo of two people at the museum and the caption reads “Joe and I at the museum”. It should read “Joe and me at the museum” An easy way to tell is to remove “Joe and” from the sentence and see which one sounds correct. Not a huge deal but kind of the same thing Stormbringer was saying about “fake formal matter”.

That’s one.

Another hangup I have is when people try to impress others by talking in a fake formal matter. This often includes the word “myself”, as in, “Myself and Dan were investigating the lobby…” What did I miss out on? I was taught to say, “Dan and I were investigating the lobby”.

That’s two.

For number three, I want to go with the singular possessive. One (unfortunately) typical example was in a small convenience store. There was a problem with people returning bottles for deposit, so a sign on a cardboard flap (3A, that’s just plain tacky) taped to the window that read, “Bottles must be checked by employee’s.” Ummm…employee’s WHAT?

I am forwarding this to my wife and daughters, who…probably already use these properly!