Mayor Bloomberg to Kids: Learn to ‘Speak Grammar’ or You Won’t Succeed

Politicker ^ | June 7, 2013 | Jill Colvin

[Ditto]

However, you could become mayor of NYC. Apparently, proper grammar is no prerequisite.

Compared to some other big city mayors, Bloomberg is an English scholar... faint praise, I understand.

But the man does have a good point. I run into far to many young people today with very limited communication skills. I'm an old guy I admit, but poor grammar was simply not acceptable when I was in school. Back in the neighborhood, you could revert to the local norm if necessary, but in school, only standard American English was acceptable. We all learned it and prospered.

[EDINVA]

To become mayor of NYC you have to have a command of the English language or, alternatively, you can have made billions of dollars. In the latter case, you don’t gotta speak no good English.

[blueunicorn6]

“Grammar”? That’s the lady married to Granpar.

[mikrofon]

Bloomin’berg is the Mayor of syntax .... “syns” like soft drinks that are too large, etc.

[LyinLibs]

[KarlInOhio]

The Mayor of America should not ask his subjects to use proper grammar. He must order them to with sever criminal penalties if they refuse.

Mix the usage of good and well? $1000 fine.

Use texting shorthand? Get a short term in prison.

Dare to split infinitives? The police are authorized to split your head open with their batons.

And if you don't get the gender of pronouns used for transsexuals correct... well, you don't even want to think of what Burgermeister Meisterbloomberg will do to you.

[ZULU]

Yeah, learn to say “Seig HEIL BloombergerFuherer”!!!

NEIN guns!!!! Nein large sodas!!! NEIN formula milk!!!!
NEIN salt in the French Fries!!!

This pipsqueak clown is living proof that somebody with a big ego and an maniacal mind can make it big in America.

[stanne]

You can call him anything you like. He has no shame.

But his wife- she’s the one you need to worry about

[The Antiyuppie]

Bloomberg may be a totalitarian, but I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that BloomBERG is not a Nazi.

So? He’s a collaborator. There are always collaborators.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Tell me about it. I drove a taxi on and off in NYC since 1981 (I quit for good 2 years ago but who knows) The best (or worst) I ever seen was about 8 years ago on Queens blvd when one of these Lance Armstrong clones wearing the tight spandex and the fashionable head gear decided he had the right of way over a truck and decided to cut him off then give him the finger (which they did to me while I was driving about a billion times).

Only problem was the truck didn't see him and you know the rest. It's amazing how much the human body twitches after it's dead. And this was right by Elmhurst hospital in which someone suggested I take what was left of him in my taxi to the emergency room. When I inquired by what method we should retrieve his brains the subject was dropped.

And the thing is, this happens every-single-day under Bloomberg

Even happened to one of his pals Alan Dershowitz. You think that would end his fanatical promo of bicycles? Hellllll no! It's soda and smoking and eating trans-fats which is the killers not riding a bike in between multi-ton hunks of metal going 60 mph.

Look at this: He rips the DA but not Bloomberg. Now *that* is some major ass kissing.

Alan Dershowitz rips Manhattan DA over sister-in-law's bike death: They're stonewalling us!

[publius911]

“Kids have to learn to speak grammar,” said the mayor, in response to a caller who suggested kids weren’t being taught the subject in schools.

Sounds like the Bloomin'Idiot could use some remedial work himself.

"Speak Grammar?"
WTF*?

I assume he meant "Speak Gramatically."

* Win The Future.

[knarf]

Bloomingidiot is SO clueless ...

We speak ENGLIH ... not grammer.

[knarf]

We speak ENGLISH ... not grammer

[EinNYC]

THIS is the piece of steaming excrement who is PROUD of NYC being a "sanctuary city" and who impedes the arrest/deportation of illegal aliens. Heck they even have high schools devoted to Hispanic, Chinese, etc. "immigrants". The halls in these high schools are festooned with posters such as "Columbus didn't discover America...he INVADED America" and other such rah-rah-America stuff (not!). Other posters demand immigration rights and a halt to stop and frisk.

What a nerve then, to complain about improper grammar use by NYers. They don't even speak ENGLISH, fool!

[JCBreckenridge]

My family has a scholarship that goes out every year. We require applicants to submit an essay. Good command of the English language -> free money.

[Tax-chick]

LOL!

[kabumpo]

Thank you for contributing your first hand experience, fellow NYer.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NotYourAverageDhimmi.

"If you don’t speak good grammar–English with good grammar–you’re not gonna get the kind of jobs that you want. You can make an argument that it shouldn’t be the case, it’s not fair, whatever, [but] people judge each other by how well-spoken they are. And if there’s a lot of jargon, and if you can’t–double negatives and things like that–they hurt your career prospects.”

Damn, he's articulate.

Naturally, the coverage will put the (R) behind his name.

[a fool in paradise]

My grammar could speak english and polish.

[Gabz]

Naturally, the coverage will put the (R) behind his name.

There is an (I) behind his name, not an (R.)