I NEVER felt so indignant until I heard the comments emanating from moderator Tony Marshall on last Thursday’s call-in programme, Down To Brass Tacks relative to the so-called language deficiency by fellow tertiary graduates during their quest for employment.
One is discouraged from indulging in self-praise, but many a time I was cautioned by Matthew Farley in his capacity as producer that the “ordinary man” listens too and that my “Cave Hill” language should be simplified.
There are hundreds of graduates and undergraduates who can better me any day. The hypocrisy of this is that the “Marshall” generation commits an injustice with their idioms, malapropisms, discursiveness and repetition daily.
Yet we let them go. Case in point: a news presenter told us during the 7:30 edition of the latest that there was stagnant water flowing outside VOB 92.9fm.
Evidently, if Mr Marshall wasn’t too busy trying to impregnate this society with his conservatism, he would have recognised that graduates are the same human species who are subject to error, and regardless of how meticulous you are, you only realise that grammatical error after you have hit the space button.
It happens to the best of us.
SYLVESTER FORDE
