“On education, Bloomberg said the U.S. should deliver the kind of schooling that will help people to speak English correctly.
It’s different from, not different than.”
This is a real problem of our time the lack of education in English is spiting this country and our economy in two. One half will forever be disadvantaged, the other half isolated and weaker. You cant come to this land expecting to enjoy its fruits while isolating yourself with a language only your group speaks. Nor can you expect as the left does that we will all speak your particular language.
English is the common lanauge of this land, much as it is also the economic language of the world. Learn it or get isolated and left behind economically. There is no excuse for refusing to learn.
Yes, that's the way it is. Not just English, but good English. A few people make it big without a command of standard English, but they make it big on the backs of millions who couldn't compose three correct sentences if their lives depended on it.
I'm reminded of the Don Williams song Good Old Boys Like Me:
When I was in school, I ran with a kid down the street,
and I watched him burn himself up on bourbon and speed.
But I was smarter than most, and I could choose ...
learned to talk like the man on the 6 o'clock news ...