Buzzell often bristles at the notion that American troops are nothing more than country hicks; when his radio interviewer joked that Buzzell must have been the only soldier carrying a copy of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" in his back pocket, Buzzell responded tersely: "There's a lot of literate people in the Army."
On its face, the statement is correct. However, he might have made his fellow soldiers (and himself) sound a little more "literate" if the statement were gramatically correct: "There are a lot of literate people in the Army".
8 posted on 05/19/2007 3:47:33 PM PDT by pawdoggie