DIVIDENDS & INTEREST
Language, Leadership, and the Old Tomato
Craig Chappelow
I'm no language snob. Just between you and me, I could care less about the way the everyday Joe or Joanne misuses the English language. What I mean is that between you and me, I could not care less. Or something like that.
The way I look at it, I want my barber to be good at cutting my hair, and it doesn't bother me that she starts almost every sentence with “basically.” “Basically,” she says, “I'm just going to take a little off the back and sides.” I am not one of those uptight perfectionist types, waiting to pounce on some hapless teenager at the cash register who ends a sentence with a preposition.
I feel the same about word usage as I do about yard tools. If ...
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