If you want to know where proper english is, work at a TV station for a week or so. No, I'm not calling out journalists here. Although, we have had our fair share of screw-ups. For example; completely destroyed.
In reality, I don't think it would take you a week to understand this. Exhibit A is an email from a viewer:
Me an my family was in a (local pancake restaurant chain) they got ants all.in the resturant that bit up a family member an they didn't care don't want to solve the problem need help with the situtation and there open servin customers while ants are cralling around _______, SC
Ahhh, the punctuation-less email. Nothing gives me more joy than reading the thought process of a 5-year-old as it comes straight from the brain (age estimate based on spelling).
I feel like I am listening to something raw and unedited. Just like I was there. In their living room watching Jerry Springer. Wait, is that show still on? OK, Judge Judy...that is still on, right?
Unfortunately these kinds of basic grammatical screw-ups have an impact on me. I have a hard time relating to someone who doesn't give me enough thought and respect to put together a proper email. It is only 3-4 lines people, you can do this. Did they just sleep through that half of the school year?
And what happened to the punctuation here? Did they type this all out in one big explosion of thought and when they finished they took a look at it and said; "I wonder if I need some sort of break in this letter...nah, this looks a lot better as one long flowing thought"?
In conclusion, I could really care less about ants in a restaurant. I mean, no, I don't want to see them in there but I'll just avoid that place for future breakfast outings. Even if the author wrote this email with an ounce of dignity I don't think I would have done anything with it.
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