LAS LENGUAS INGLESA Y ESPAÑOLA de Delfín Carbonell

Not that long ago, in villages and small towns, the Mayor of the place made announcements to the inhabitants through the town crier or pregonero , who, after sounding a horn,or a bell,  would begin with the words Hear ye, hear ye ... and in Spanish se hace saber ... In this day and age ( sic ) we are more sophisticated in delivering announcements, pregones. My pregón today is that we are all judged by our language and the manner we speak, and do not be deceived if you are told otherwise. We are all judged, as unfair as you may deem it to be,  by our grammar, accent, vocabulary, and even by the fact that we are rhotic (or not). So please, put on your best language at all times. You will have little to lose and a lot to gain. Thank you.   

  By courtesy of Lorraine Ladish ( Vivafifty ), I have access to NETFLIX.  On and off, I watch  SUITS , about a classy law firm. The attorneys there are all Harvard graduates; graduates of other universities need not apply. La crème de la crème. These attorneys-at-law look down on other law schools in the country, and they say so constantly. All fine and dandy but, for the life of me, I cannot understand how these uppity, snobbish, high-and-mighty lawyers can say, again and again: "Like I was saying...", "Like I said..." as if they belonged to an intellectual low class. "One another" is not in their vocabulary, but "each other" is used constantly. "The three of us must help each other" which means they love to cross legal and linguistic lines, to show the riffraff who they are. "Can I come in?" is standard in SUITS , instead of the old-world "May I come in?"  Some may (can?) argue that those "errors" are ...