Spelling, grammar and composition MATTER. Lazy, Marxist educators stopped marking down students’ work and tests for spelling and grammar decades ago, and now everyone is illiterate and completely unable to write prose. Mr. Kelsey, and the organization he works for, loses massive credibility simply by virtue of the fact that sentences like this are allowed to be published:
“However, I have spoke to few producers . . . .“
Um, so neither Mr. Kelsey nor any of the editors of this magazine can properly conjugate the verb “to speak” into the past participle? Really? Call me a snob, but this sort of cringe-inducing error destroys a writer’s credibility – and this article is a prosaic disaster from beginning to end. It reads as if Obama wrote it. If you can’t even speak your native language, how can you possibly be trusted to hold forth on concepts of economics and mercantilism?
INDEED.