Jack,

"Like I said, to be where San Francisco is and was, the team that we played in the Super Bowl, a team that’s very close, a team that I feel like is on the cusp and hopefully I can go there and help them achieve the goals they have in mind."


Laughing my a$$ off here. Yes, take out all the "you knows" and "ums" and you know what's left? A "sentence" that is still riddled with grammatical failures from the very first word.

As I said, from the first word, as in "Like I said."

"To be where San Francisco is." What is it, to be where San Francisco is? We never find out.

But "to be where San Francisco is and was." Now there's a degree of athleticism I don't think I've seen an NFL player display before.

"A team that I feel like is one on the cusp." Ah, there's that friendly, fatal little "like" again. Anquan might feel like a yo-yo after flying from Baltimore to Senegal and then all the way to San Francisco; he might feel like a Royale with cheese on the flight over, but somebody should explain to him that you can't feel like is.

"A team that I feel like is one on the cusp and hopefully I can go there and help them." Maybe he can give his new teammates lessons in how to run on sentences as well as how to run routes. (Let's set aside the disagreement between the singular "team" at the beginning and the plural "them" at the end of this portion of verbiage, as it's a confusion sometimes made by even the most careful.)

Funny, yesterday I read on another website an article by a former TIME writer that had several grammatical errors and was wondered when precisely the age of illiteracy set in. I decided it was the day I arrived at the magazine's offices in 1998 and discovered a large skip full of books - many of them of a vintage and nature unlikely ever to be digitized - sitting outside the library. Since the number of people using the library had fallen following the introduction of internet connections in 1996, management decided to start simply dismantling it. That was also the day I decided to create my own library of traditional books.

Last Edited By: Win80 03/12/13 03:13 PM. Edited 4 times.