I DON'T NEED NO ENGLISH!!!

NO I DON’T NEED NO ENGLISH!

I don’t know about everyone in this world but one thing I do know is me and what I hate. There is nothing I cannot stand more than improper English. I can’t stand double negatives, bad sentences, or mispronounced words! I don’t know why, but that is ME I can’t stand it. The main reason is that there is just no excuse for it, you take English classes from the time you start school until you graduate one day. Even in the workplace no one will hire someone who can’t even put a sentence together. It just makes you sound brainless when you say something like “I have went to that show” instead of “I have gone to that show” now come on everybody let’s try a little harder to sound more professional. We will call these people our Uncle Jerry. We all have or know someone who has an Uncle who just doesn’t have it all there and tries really hard to be the center of attention but in the end doesn’t get any because he is un educated and unable to carry a human conversation.

As an example that I personally cannot stand would be when people say “I seen your brother the other day.” I have a friend that does this constantly! OMG, talk about pissing me off right. I will correct him every time. But of course he still does it, he will say he is correct and he does not give a shit what anyone or any text book tells him. A typical Uncle Jerry.

Uncle Jerry’s are also people who talk like the title, they need to take a look in the mirror and ask “REALLY THAT’S HOW I'M TALKING!!” I mean seriously just read the title out loud…….WTF right! How dumb can you sound? I refuse to believe people do not know when there speaking wrong. Now I understand slang and talking with your friends having your own words that only your group know about because I do it too. I use words like dope, goon, gwop, tight, ish, rainbox, ladida, and many others. But when you purposely try to sound dumb while in a public setting such as a classroom that’s just ignorant and annoying as hell. Believe me I am not the only one who does not want to hear you I am sure that your parents want to “hear” the money there spending on your education or your teachers would like to think there is still hope for you and you cannot possibly talk like that.

Another reason I can’t stand bad language is the fact that I grew up in a house and went to a school that pretty much demanded excellent grammar. Going to a private school may be the reason it upsets me so much but who knows maybe just personal reasons. In my experience my high school was filled with Uncle Jerry’s, who would use bad grammar (transferred to a public high school) whether it were to teachers, police officers, parents, coaches, you know what pretty much whoever they talked to. It turned out most of these people were from public schools. Now I’m not saying private schools have better education or anything in that nature because that is just not true, but what I am saying is that it seems to be more acceptable at public schooling and such to use poor language and not learn the proper use. Whether you had gone to a public school or a private one bad usage of language is everywhere and you cannot stop it but we can try. I say we start correcting people, telling them what they’re saying wrong or what it is they don’t know. Not making them feel stupid but just telling them the correct sentence or word usage. But then again to prove a point you may want to make them feel stupid so the message is clear you sound like a LAME ASS!!

The thing I just do not get is what is so hard about using English correctly? Do young teens think there cooler if they sound stupid, like it’s not the cool thing to do to be smart? Ha-ha think about that for a second you’re called “cool” for looking stupid... man looks like society may be screwed up in more ways than we thought. Now I am nowhere near being the smartest kid on the planet, in the school, or in the class (only graduating high school with a 3.3) but at least I have the pride and decency to try and sound more intelligent and professional.

You must ask yourself where these people think they will get jobs. If I was hiring and I was giving someone an interview who talked with such poor grammar there is no way they are going to get the job. Now everyone has had experiences where they have had to select people as captains, representatives, or any instance you had to hire someone, and they will all tell you they chose the best person qualified. “Best qualified?” I wonder who that would possibly be, the person who acted like they had not gone to school at ALL or the person who is speaking in SENTENCES. Bad grammar affects things we do not even realize are being affected such as jobs.

So I leave you all with this Obama talks about change well let us start our own change, how about we change the way we talk, let’s correct people even if they think we are just being an ass. Hopefully bad English and Uncle Jerry’s have pissed you all of as much as it has me and we make strides to improving as a whole.


---Blake Allen