Compu-toon by Charles Boyce for January 11, 2011
January 10, 2011
January 12, 2011
Transcript:
"I've got so many friends I'm beginning to wonder where are all the enemies at."
Arghhhh! The purpose of grammar is to communicate clearly. Presumably the purpose of speaking or writing is to communicate something that the speaker believes is worthwhile to communicate to another. Ending a sentence with a preposition, and using redundancies obscures clarity and suggests that the speaker/writer does not care enough about the subject of the communication, or the persons to whom the communication is made, to be clear.