Dialects are great. But dialect is reserved to speak to those who understand the dialect. Otherwise, proper grammar and spelling denote that you paid attention in middle school or are willing to pay attention and learn later. If you are in sales or any occupation in which you need to communicate to the public, you cannot speak in a heavy dialect which the listener cannot understand. I don't think when you have to write reports at your job it's acceptable to use poor language skills, nor when you fill out your application, write any kind of paper or give any kind of information to the public. It will hold you back from being promoted...unless your boss is just as careless.

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let me thank the committe for inviting my wife and me; as you correctly stated, that phrase used it as an object (whom did he invite?)

huge difference between dialect and proper use of grammar. The are not the same.

indeed, it depends on in what part of the sentence it is used. If it's the subject, it's I, if it's the object it's me.

depends on what part of the country people are from. Different dialects.

that's talking in the third person when they mean to talk in the first person. I am going to the store is first person. Ray is going to the store is third person.

excellent!

as in Los Angeles

turns out, that law was not even a factor in the case

the cloud has its wonderful attributes, as you mentioned, but there are times the server or portal to it is shut down for maintenance, or your modem/router is malfunctioning and it might be at a time you absolutely must get something done on an ap you have on the cloud. Yeah, in the case of the modem, you can go to a WiFi hot spot outside of your home but that is inconvenient, time-consuming and not secure unless you have VPN.

none of you has factored in capital gains taxes which you incur on every sale the fund manager makes within the fund. You pay those taxes annually even though you are not selling any fund shares. You don't have those taxes to pay if you own the individual stock outright until you actually sell shares of that stock, whereas the constant trading of stock within the fund incurs capital gains tax and that is reported and paid wiith your tax return, thus must be subtracted from profits.

[quote=MaggieMay1978]HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY? (written by kids)

now, if only the teacher had taught some proper grammar as well: ...decide WHOM to marry.

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