For a Ph.D. in chemistry or anything else I don’t how you spent so much time in school and still say, “There is people ...
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Watch out, you will be branded a “grammar policeman”! Proper English usage is considered a useless skill now. I am cursed with what J.J. Kilpatrick used to call an “ear” for the language. I may not always use it correctly but I almost always know when someone else makes an error and it is sometimes painful for me to listen to the news on TV now. There are so many errors by “professional journalists” that it is hard to believe.
Seriously though, if we are producing PHD graduates who say things like, “there is people”, we are entering a dark age indeed.
Greetings from a high school graduate.
Of late, proper English usage has come to be considered a useless skill. Pay too much attention to English usage on FR and you might be branded a “grammar policeman”!
I am cursed with what J.J. Kilpatrick called an “ear” for the language. While my own usage may not always be correct, errors committed by others are almost always obvious to me; as a result, watching television news has become a painful chore. So-called professional journalists commit an astounding number of usage errors. The fact that our journalism schools are producing Ph.D graduates to whom phrases such as “there is people” seem perfectly correct does not bode well for the future.
Lol ...
Since I have just limited language capabilities (3 language fluently spoken (german as my mother tounge, dutch, french and - as you’ve already recognized - english) some people consider, that my education is at least incomplete.
Well it is - since I certianly believe in the concept of life long learning.
But what the heck - I am still more literate then your president.