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"Bank of America has always strived for higher standards" but apparently has not striven for better grammar.
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[identity profile] dagonell.livejournal.com 2006-10-27 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
There was a recent car commercial that made me cringe.
"... and better mileage means less trips to the gas pump!"
My wife actually yelled "FEWER" at the TV.
-- Dagonell

[identity profile] kimbari.livejournal.com 2006-10-27 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
BWAH! Maybe they wuz dumbing down. (I kinda doubt it, though. These are the kinds of mistakes people with advanced degrees make. >:)

[identity profile] jenwrites.livejournal.com 2006-10-27 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
What do you expect from the bank whose ATMs exhort you to park "closed" to them?

[identity profile] be-well-lowell.livejournal.com 2006-10-27 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
It would be fine in British English, as I recall, but that hardly seems like a good excuse for the Bank of America.

[identity profile] baron-steffan.livejournal.com 2006-10-28 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, if I remember correctly, you were a linguistics
major, right? So what's *your* take on the apparent One True
Religion that language may only be *described*, and that there
are no "rules", making such things as "have strived" just "a
dialectal usage".

Linguistics has long been something of hobby for me, and recently
I've seriously increased my study. When, for example, I've presumed
to use the word "wrong" in such fora as sci.lang, I've gotten slapped
by the pros.

I'm like "eew" when people conversate bad, y'know?

--- Steve
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