Look, We Have to Stop Saying, “Look”
Posted on March 11th, 2009 by Ms. SP
The president started it.
Now everyone is doing it—even me.
And it’s driving me crazy.
- Please don’t say Look when you mean Listen.
- Please don’t even say Listen. It’s condescending and automatically puts the listener on the defensive.
I know President Obama is going to have trouble stopping this linguistic tic because he probably does it all the time. All of his people have caught it and are spreading it throughout the media-sphere. It’s infiltrating society.
So please, Mr. President, fix the country first. Then lead us all into better language usages.