Students, Adults Don’t Know Basic Pronunciation and Grammar

By Austin Cohea | Assistant Editor |

Espresso, not expresso; it’s not a coffee train, folks.

It angers me every single day. Whilst I’m on this topic, I’ll settle it for everyone, it’s soda, not pop, not soda pop. Soda.

Mini-ature, Miniature, (say minature). Don’t pronounce the mini.

Also, it’s not artic, it’s arctic. Please, just…

What’s particularly annoying is when someone tries to sound smart on twitter and uses a “big word” and THEY USE IT WRONG. Those people shouldn’t have access to the internet.

People who purposefully mispronounce words, why? Has the public education system failed you? Did you just not listen?

Teenagers like to say that their lack of grammar is warranted in that it allows for greater freedom of expression, but that doesn’t change that the fact that they look stupid when they use your instead of you’re.

Please do not say probly or prolly, say probably like you’ve ever been to school in your entire life you ignoramus.

I may sound like an uptight snob, or some may go as far as to call me a grammar nazi, but at least I don’t sound stupid.

I genuinely believe there’s not enough effort put in by the government to fix this. Some students don’t even use apostrophes in the simplest of words, like don’t and wouldn’t (here’s a tip, since your third grade English teachers didn’t bother, or you didn’t listen, the apostrophe goes where the letter is missing, so do not= don’t.)

To be quite honest, this is why other countries think lowly of us. In my opinion the only person who can say ain’t is Kanye West. It ain’t acceptable otherwise.

Now, don’t misunderstand, if English is not your native language, it’s perfectly acceptable to not know everything, but for people who have lived here since they were born, it’s just stupid. In fact, people who are just learning English seem to care way more than native speakers, and for that, I applaud them.

I know they sound like prats, but if someone corrects your grammar, they’re only trying to help, so don’t take offense.