We must encourage our students (and colleagues) not to use 鈥渁bsolutely鈥 instead of 鈥測es鈥, and also not to begin almost every reply or statement with 鈥渟o鈥. Another irritating habit is the raising of emphasis at the end of statements so that they sound like questions when they are not.
Below is a cartoon I have designed to illustrate one of my points.
I鈥檓 like, Oh my God 鈥 this is gross?
David Wilson
Dalston, Cumbria
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