Correcting grammar at the dinner table

[scooter2071]

I would do as some of the others suggest and ask him to refrain from correcting your grammar period.

That being said, I'm trying to break my husband's bad grammar habits, he and his entire family say 'Seen it...' as in "I seen it at the mall" or "I seen it yesterday". He had no idea it is a misuse of grammar as his entire family uses it, I just don't want our kids to adopt the phrase. I've pointed it out to him and he is trying but sometimes he lets it slip and I'll remind him but not in front of other people.

[PoisonIvy]

My favourite grammar-related response is a quote from Winston Churchill, pontificating on the edict that one should never end a sentence with a preposition:

"This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put."

I find the above is an effective comeback when a particularly pedantic friend of mine feels it necessary to correct my grammar.  I know the proper grammar, but spoken grammar is often much more informal than written.  As long as you're not peppering your speech with double negatives and the like, your BIL should just chill out.

[freakyfemme]

*Bump* again, for the benefit of anyone who might want to read the "graduate feces" story.