Sara Schaefer

Let me just start by saying that I can't STAND grammar snobs. People who find it not
only necessary, but in fact their god-given right, to correct my grammar and speech -
in mid-conversation. People who act like the world is coming to an end because
somebody used a dangling preposition. You people can shove it up.

Here's my philosophy.

1. We all came from monkeys.

2. All languages and dialects - from country bumkin to the queen's english - came from the same mother-of-all-languages originated by the monkeys as they were just starting to figure out how to be human. I imagine this language sounded something akin to the secret language used by Jody Foster to communicate with her dead twin in the smash hit Nell.

3. Language is constantly changing. It's used for communicating. And as long as I can understand you, who cares?

I'm readin' you loud and clear, buddy.

4. Now, if I can't understand you, because, say, you're speaking a different language, or a different dialect even, does that make you wrong and me right? No. It just makes us different.

NEVERTHELESS (always the more) - I get really irked when I see inexplicable use of quotation marks.

For instance, when I see a sign in a laundromat that reads:

Clothes "left" unattended are not the responsibility of management. Thank "you."

I can't help but...