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[luvmybeetle]

This may be trivial but it bugs me like crazy.

I do not have the best English but I have a problem with the hosts speaking problems.  I would think that when any TV station/News program hires a person they would know how to speak properly.  I hear so many hosts speak improperly as in "these ones", "off of", and so forth.  There are many things I find incorrect and I do understand everyone has their own way of speaking, it is just driving me nuts.  

I don't know why I'm upset about something so trivial, I guess I'm just having a bad New Year.

[Kachina624]

@luvmybeetle.  What do you think we should do about it?

[luvmybeetle]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@luvmybeetle.  What do you think we should do about it?

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I don't think we should  do anything about it, I'm just venting my opinion.

[Sooner]

@luvmybeetle I do hope your year gets better!  All the best and summer is here so maybe that will help!  I wish you a happy spring and a beautiful sunny summer!

As far as language, that changes and not much we can do accept that is it a growing and evolving part of human change and movement and interaction.  I think we would have a hard time understanding someone speaking Old English.  I have heard it read and the differences are amazing.  

Some of the people I grew up with are speaking a language all its own to parts of Texas and Oklahoma. 

[Zhills]

I think the Hosts should have to take courses in correct English! 

Secretaries have to know how to write a letter correctly....Hosts should have to know how to speak correctly!JMHO

[SilleeMee]

Even closed captioning has a hard time with it. 

[luvmybeetle]

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@Zhills wrote:

I think the Hosts should have to take courses in correct English! 

Secretaries have to know how to write a letter correctly....Hosts should have to know how to speak correctly!JMHO

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Thank you.  I was a secretary and went to school for word processing, and was an English major.  I guess that is my reasoning.  People in public speaking should know how to speak correctly.

[Tori3569]

Just curious, what's the issue with "off of"?  As in "the vet took my cat off of her medication ".   I feel like I'm missing something 

[Q-Checker]

@luvmybeetle I agree that hosts should use grammmatically correct Standard English -- as do news casters and other public speakers. Regional and casual speech is best used in regional and casual environments.

[Kachina624]

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@Zhills wrote:

I think the Hosts should have to take courses in correct English! 

Secretaries have to know how to write a letter correctly....Hosts should have to know how to speak correctly!JMHO

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@Zhills. They are presumably all college grads many having majored in communications.  If all of that won't do it, I don't know what will.

I agree with @luvmybeetle , I hear some things that are cringe-worthy.