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Originally posted by Phasad1913
I agree with everything that has been said here. With particular respect to what Bill said about speaking proper English, I would really like to know what can be done about it? No matter how much grammar is taugh in school, when that child goes home and speaks incorrectly around family and friends and all of them speak the same way, much of what was taugh in school gets "un-learned". It's like what I tell people I work with all the time, if you take someone from a foreign country and put them in ESL courses for years, their accent and incorrect speech/grammar patterns aren't really going to fade if as soon as they leave the class they continue to speak in their native tongue or in the ways that they have become comfortable.
Most of us who speak standard English in all settings do so because we have been exposed and in the presence of people with whom standard English speaking is the norm and we became accustomed to speaking properly. Maybe exposure is something that's key and needs to be enhanced among young people. I know that sounds obvious, but perhaps it isn't being done on a wide enough scale. I don't know, I just always like to present some form of a suggestion if I am going to complain.
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Excellent suggestion -- this speaks to some of the things I hope we are all doing with our respective organizations. Kids learn from modeling.