AS A guest in front of a dining table: Do you make music of your soup? Do you wipe your lips on your sleeves? Do you pick your teeth?
Although you do any of these things, you won’t be jailed, nonetheless. Certainly however, you won’t be invited again. For our social code turns “thumbs down” on such kind of social behavior. If you want to go with the grain of society, then you have to avoid doing the wrong things and do the right things. Otherwise, you must remember what you should have learned in the primary school called GMRC.
Likewise, do you say or write: Accident prone area. Enrolment ongoing. Go slow. I ain’t going.
If you do, then you are a made man.
Accident prone area is wrong because a piece of land can never be prone to accident. Enrolment ongoing is wrong and the right phrase is “ongoing enrolment or enrolment going on.” “Go slow” is wrong and the right one is “slow down.” “I ain’t going” is wrong, the right grammar is – “I’m or I am not going.”
In the English Language, there are certain expressions which could immediately brand you as uneducated or illiterate. Our saying that “It’s unfair.” Why should we judge a book by its cover? Why should we judge a person’s education by just a few expressions?
There’s something in what you say. You’re a faithful friend, you are a good sport.
You mind your own business, you are everything you ought to be as a human
being or citizen. All told, you are worth your weight in gold. And just because you write, “He ain’t coming,” society will point a finger of scorn at you and say, “Illiterate or uneducated.”
Yes, that’s precisely what will and does take place. Perhaps, it’s somewhat unreasonable. Even then, however, it’s one of the hard facts of life. In the eyes of society, certain expressions are as undesirable as blowing your nose in front a dining table. Of course, you will be understood while at the same time you will be something of an outcast. What you want to be is clear and right.
Therefore, the sensible thing for you to do is look for what the socially unacceptable expressions are, and then avoid using them when you speak or write. Also, do not forget the saying that goes - “What is wrong cannot be made right by another wrong.” By the way, I am not an English teacher. I am just old enough to have learned what I should.
“This here book is mine.” Society will point a finger of scorn at you and say, “uneducated and illiterate.”
Indeed, that’s precisely what will and does take place. Perhaps, it’s unreasonable. Nevertheless, that’s one of the hard facts of life, in the eyes of society, certain “wrong” expressions are as undesirable as blowing your nose in front of a dining table.” You will, of course, be understood, but you will be something like an outcast despite the fact that what you want is clear and correct.