[LibertarianInExile]

When we look at the wrongs now fait accompli, all initiated in the name of doing good, public education has to be on the top of the list. We will never regain the English language until public education is dead and buried.

I imagine you and others will enjoy this:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html

I am not as certain as some of the rest of you regarding the immutability of language. I would actually be pleased if there were some changes to the average language policeman's law book. For instance, taking issue with improper uses of who/whom, that/which, and bring/take really seems a bit too persnickety in my book. Conversationally, I can't see people making these decisions easily while speaking on the fly, just as they do not do so in avoiding a preposition dangling at sentence's end. I do understand the need for precise language, but often English has already surrendered in areas I would never have waved the white flag.

Top of the list? The word "inflammable." Why does it mean flammable, too? Might as well have the words "competent" and "incompetent" mean the same thing! I want "inflammable" back meaning NOT flammable so that I know which bucket to pitch onto the fire!

I prefer not to carp on English errors, but I do know that if I were hiring an executive, the one who misspelled in his resume would not be getting the job were it one where he represented our company to the public.

[durasell]

Yes, public education, taxes, lawyers, Clinton, the unions and OSHA have all devolved our language to a series of grunts and snorts.

[SAJ]

Good policy. Keep the illiterates away from the clientele (g!).

More seriously, though, yours is -- in my humble view -- an excellent commentary, **particularly** the part about public (alleged) schools.

Well said, and FReegards!

[Petronski]

bring/take

Huh?

Your teacher was at the DESTINATION. "Bring your homework."

Your mother was at your DEPARTURE: "Take your homework."

Thus, if I'm not there yet, don't tell me to bring 'it', unless you ARE there and are sending me a message from there.

How is that hard?