Excuse me, but your language is slipping.

It's no wonder the rest of the world can't figure us out. Look at our idiomatic expressions, most of which have nothing to do with anything grammatical.

I'm not going to list them out, but here are a couple of pet peeves of mine. The use of any of these in my presence is likely to get you at least a glare. If they are used in my direction, the conversation is over. If it's by a politician, you've just lost my vote forever (and I don't care if that means I need to vote the Perot ticket again or not). If it's in a book, I do not put the book aside lightly, I do, in fact, throw it away from me with great force (unless I'm supposed to review it because then i haven't a choice, do I?).

"Taken cared of" - The only person I have allowed to use this in my presence is my wife, for obvious reasons. If you mean something completed in the past say, "It has been taken care of." Yes, jerk, there is a 'be' verb in there. Anyone claiming, "It ends in a preposition!" can keep their Latin grammar to themselves. If you don't know what I mean, then you don't know the history of your own language.

"a myriad of" or "myriads of" - That is so CRAPTASTIC! No one should be allowed to get away with this and live. It's an adjective, which means:

1. It does not take a plural or possessive because it ain't a noun
2. It cannot be used in a preposition in primary position because it is an adjective of numbers and can therefore only modify other adjectives or nouns to indicate how much of those exist
   

So, "A myriad...," is fine. It points to some specific thing that comes in many varieties (whatever varieties might exist for that thing). "The myriad," is also acceptable. It points to the many varieties that this specific thing exists in. I know these seem the same to most out there, but if you can understand the difference between them, there is still hope for you. The rest of you, learn sign language and shut up.

This next one, my friends, is the one that set me off tonight.

"horribly underfunded" - did this politician want top say, "underfunded," "greatly underfunded," or did she really mean that the people funding this project failed to underfund it adequately?

Loose lips may sink ships, but sloppy language destroys the means by which we convey ideas to one another. Screw with it, and it'll screw you.