Please folks, let's use our grammar correctly: we graduate FROM high school, college or whatever. We don't "graduate

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43. Most people aren't grammarians

and use of informal English in everyday conversations is the norm. As long as the person(s) they’re communicating to understand them, then what’s the problem?

This topic reminds me of a story, actually a parable, I once heard.

yYears ago. In a business that sold desks, one of the salesmen was reading a letter out loud to the rest of the sales team from a poorly educated salesman’s, Jim. Part of the letter went something like this.

‘I spake with Mr.X about our desks. He were very interested in buying 50 from us. I selled him 75 desks!. I come back to the office on Friday.”

Everybody started laughing and then the manager came our and asked what was so funny. The salesman gave him the letter and told him how poorly Jim wrote and spoke. The manager read the letter wrote something on the letter, and posted it on the bulletin board. What he wrote was”

“Maybe if we concentrate on our job rather than on the way someone writes we’d sell more desks like Jim did.”

The point of the story is effective communications occurs when people understand each other.