More Worse

It amazes me that people have not mastered the art of speaking. I was sitting in my morning production meeting and one of the managers uttered the words, more worse. What the hell is more worse? Is it like worser? Why do you need a descriptive for the word worse? If something is getting worse, it can degrade to worst which is the bottom of that rung. Worse is not a word that requires someone to interject additional description. I know, I am over reacting but when people that should know better cannot seem to speak in public in a manner unbefitting their position, it irks the daylights out of me.

My wife has a pet peeve with the word stupider. When we were going to school, it was not a word. You use the word dumber or just stupid. Adding the “er” on the end makes it a non-word. I was forced to endure a waitress this weekend that must have been asleep through most of her high school English classes. Her speech was atrocious and she was a friendly talker. To boot, this was a buffet restaurant and when the bill came, there was an 18% gratuity tacked onto the bill. We had to wait almost 25 minutes for our drinks and most of the party served themselves. Not only did we have to endure unintelligible speech but we paid through the nose for pathetic service. At least the company was great.

I realize that there is little I can do to prevent the use of poor grammar. Correcting people just makes them angry and no matter how much you use the correct phraseology, people will talk the way they learned (or didn’t learn) it. Short of intense electroshock therapy for a sizable percentage of the population, I will be forced to continue to hear such wonderful phrases as ain’t not got and more worse. And so that I can continue to perpetuate that trend….

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Cobb