Nothing critical about it and thank you. This is a good opportunity to clarify that David and I and any others who wish to join in on this obvious hijack can. I hope it is not a jumping off point to begin jokingly or not jokingly correct each other's grammar.
It is funny that you brought up music. I realize this will sound silly, but listening to good sentence structure is music to my ear. Hearing glaring grammatical errors is like scratching on a chalk board or a bad note on a violin.
I owe it to my mother, an English teacher, who would not settle for anything other than perfect English from her children.
It is sad that children now know how to spell iPad, iPod, texting, and other acronyms but have never been taught to diagram a sentence. Emails are typed in one big blob of words without even one paragraph. Most people from 25 and under have no idea what the proper format of a letter is. For that matter, why should they, as they are just as likely to send an email to the Dean of a medical school as a letter. They simply don't teach grammar anymore.
My staff, who cannot write one message or HPI without a misspelling often tell me that English doesn't matter. I always tell them that if I am interviewing two people for a job and they are both equal, if one says, "It is I," and the other says, "It is me," the former will get the job. It's all part of the packge.
