Yesterday’s blogpost criticised the grammatical error made by England’s Prince of Wales. The previous day’s post was equating the wearing of all forms of clerical gear with virtue signalling.
Might it be fair to say that correcting the Prince of Wales for his poor grammar was virtue signalling?
It was not the intention.
There seems to be something in the ether, which allows certain grammar errors to be acceptable by the middle classes and other grammar errors that are taboo and completely ‘out of order’.
The Prince of Wales would never say ‘I done the school run today’. If per chance he did, not even he would avoid criticism. But saying: ‘My father visited John and I’ has been given an imprimatur by the middle classes so that makes it okay.
Both are incorrect. Why should one be acceptable to so-called cognoscenti and the other not acceptable? Has it a something to do with social class, accent, address, occupation?
It would seem to be the case.
2 comments:
you are the great example of virtue signalling with your self righteous judgements on your brother priests. dont you wear the dominican habit and mass vestments. more double standards by you. you hate being one of us, yet you stay for what suits you. its time to get real and make an honest choice.
This report in The IrishTimes today. Is the poor grammar coming from the US or from Trump supporters?
“ ‘Cowboy' Jack, who travelled from North Carolina with his palominos to compete, says his truck, pulling a substantial trailer equipped with lodgings for him and his horses, burned through a full tank of gas on the 5½-hour drive down, costing him about $130 (€120) to refill.
'Used to be about $80,' he says. 'Everything has went up, way up.'
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