He also habitually uses “double subjects” in his sentences, which shows me he wasn’t paying attention in English class.
An example would be, “John Solomon, he’ll be on the show tonight.”
It sounds like an insignificant thing, but it makes Sean sound not as smart as he is. And it gets “under the skin” of English majors like me. Some of us care about the language.
“it makes Sean sound not as smart as he is.”
Are you sure he’s that smart?
That drives me nuts!
There are two different species of the English language, apart from dialects: Spoken and written. Spoken is loosy-goosy and few complain. Besides, pretty much all yer languages got ze idioms.
Does it bother you when you hear “off TEN” which seems to be happening more and more? Now I am even hearing people say “sof TEN” for soften!
Does it bother you when you hear people say “did DENT”, “could DENT, or “would DENT” for didn’t, couldn’t or wouldn’t?
Does it bother you when you hear people misuse “myself”? (You can only use myself, herself, himself, etc., if you first use “I”, “she” or “he” in a sentence. If you can use the word “I” or “me” in that place in the sentence, “myself” is wrong.
Does the phrase “me and her” bother you?
And most of all, does it bother you to hear people use singular subject and plural object? (example: Tell that person they need to improve their grammar.)
Mixing up “who” and “whom” is forgivable, I suppose.
What is happening to the pronunciation of our language, let alone grammar? What offense against the Queen’s English will occur next?
My wife has a PHD in English!!!! If one is getting under the skin of an English major he must be doing something right!!!
I don’t think he is all that smart but he works hard and knows how to keep an audience (I am not included in his audience).