I'd like to have another quiet word about grammar. Listening to 'As it Happens' most nights, I have to bear Carol Off who always says, "I appreciate you speaking with us," to her guests.
No, Carol. It's "I appreciate your speaking with us." She is appreciating a thing, an act, not a person. It's the same as, "I was moved by your talking with me." Etc. Now, if she had said, "I appreciate 'you'." Period. That would have been correct. So effing annoying.
She also mangles things such as, "A trio of.....whatever......were." No, it's, "A trio was....." She also says, "fertography". Please.
Can't the CBC educate its employees? Bad grammar continues to kill me.
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