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No, hell no.
Professional interviews tend to be fairly formal -- at least you can bet that the interviewer will be fairly formal.
And if the interview is on television, the interviewer will try her darnedest to not make a single mistake. |
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prezbucky
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| Thu Jun 26, 2008 0:56 am English multiple negation |
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| Molly wrote: | Not with Sir Alan Sugar, it wouldn't.
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How many Sir Alan Sugars are there?
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MrPedantic
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| Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:08 am English multiple negation |
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| MrPedantic wrote: | | Molly wrote: | Not with Sir Alan Sugar, it wouldn't.
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How many Sir Alan Sugars are there?
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More than the prescritivists would have us believe. When you've been around business people a long time, you know that the scare-tactics of so called educationalists wanting to sell their standardised English product are not always worth worrying about. If you want a certain candidate enough, you don't often choose him/her for his abilities in standard grammar. See the last two episodes of The Apprentice (Brit version) for one example of such. |
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Molly
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| Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:13 am English multiple negation |
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| Molly wrote: | | When you've been around businees people a long time, you know that the scare-tactics of so called educationalists wanting to sell their standardised English product are not always worth worrying about. |
Spanish "business people" or English "business people"? |
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MrPedantic
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| Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:47 am English multiple negation |
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| MrPedantic wrote: | | Molly wrote: | | When you've been around businees people a long time, you know that the scare-tactics of so called educationalists wanting to sell their standardised English product are not always worth worrying about. |
Spanish "business people" or English "business people"? |
International. |
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Molly
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| Thu Jun 26, 2008 15:46 pm English multiple negation |
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| prezbucky wrote: | ...and i didn't go quite far enough in one of the above posts when I gave this as an example:
"They ain't eaten their beans yet."
To some down here, it would be even worse:
"They ain't ate their beans yet." |
Cool beans, Tom 
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