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Don\u2019t call me crotchety.<\/p>\n<h2>Call me anything you want, just don\u2019t say it out loud\u2026<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>What has me all bunched up?<\/p>\n<p>I hear it on news interviews, court shows, sometimes even in the newspaper and from the real humans in my life.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u201cThe agreement was between me and her.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u201cI bought this at the store and it only costed five dollars.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u201cI was out on the back porch when I seen this guy come rollin\u2019 up on my neighbor\u2019s grill.\u201d I can handle the slang here but the word \u2018seen\u2019 in the wrong context drives me right into the zone some people would call the scratching on the chalk board sound.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have been known to ask my DH what his first language might have been. I know, I am not a nice person when the chalkboard emits a shrieking sound. He also makes noise when he eats, it is like being in a hardware store rifling through the nail drawer, but that is off topic. And this inability to listen to eating sounds is a real syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh. Most of these <em>English Offenders<\/em> are American born and this is their first language. Folks like the ELI Students from long ago spoke very good English. Idioms, however, kept them stumped for more than a semester.<\/p>\n<p>So, who teaches people how to use basic English?<\/p>\n<p>First off, nannys, daycare workers and parents teach them. Siblings also teach them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Dan, aged 3, \u201cEat it up. Drink it up. Sarah said so at Poppy\u2019s house.\u201d This quote resurfaced a lot during those days of post toddlerhood.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u201cShi t Weasel,\u201d my granddaughter used to say. 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