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Smart Talk SMART TALK By Saber S. Poder, R.N.
BE SURE AND: Some time back, I ran some trenchant remarks about how otherwise intelligent people often say try and instead of try to. In trying to sound sophisticated, they use poor English and sound uneducated. They even claim to feel badly about certain events.
These are the same earnest folks who admonish each other to be sure and do things. Of course, they mean be sure to do it, but the illogic of their language never enters their well-styled heads.
At the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, we nickname patients who misuse the language this way BWBs, for British WannaBes.
Like many Brits, they also don’t know the difference between that and which, but I’ll let another staff member tackle that one.
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