In reply to: Here is a general hiring question for those smarter than me posted by hempfield75
entertainment.
SEG/Chief
How gauche!
One is correct but the other is also commonly used. That’s basically what your link says.
in the way that the folks that decide these things interpret language. I used to hang out with a professor who wrote the book on the topic. What is in the article reflects what he told me. Just one excerpt from the article, of several, make it clear . . .
"Your friend is merely repeating what the 18th- and 19th-century prescriptive grammarians of the Lowth school laid down as the rules of grammar: that is, rules that told others to speak and write as they (the prescriptivists) thought they should. We ignore those guys now. They lied."
subject in high school. I would rather wrestle an alligator than tackle
grammer.
SEG/Chief
My French canadian grammer was a tough battleaxe
boat with the guy who invented the tie and weight machine. Then put a hole
in the boat. Grammar stinks in all languages. Even my German Grammar made
fun of me.
SEG/Chief