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Message: [QUOTE="MadDogRevival, post: 2444209, member: 8028"] Wow. That escalated quickly. How you are perceived is very strongly connected to how you speak. Simple as that, and it doesn't matter who the listener is. If your cardiologist came in, chart in hand, and said, "we was lookin' at the results of your ECG and we has some concern about your mitral valve," and that doesn't scare the feces out of you, then I'm not sure what to tell you. It would not make you a racist. It would make you a person who associates speaking ability with education. Kevin Ollie regularly uses about 20 or fewer grammatically incorrect words/phrases/tenses. Perhaps it works on the recruiting trail, sitting in the kitchen. "We was" is the most glaring. I'm surprised, however, that KO, as hard working as he is, has not taken the very little effort it would take to use standard English when speaking publicly. I don't know how it could be anything but good for his career. [/QUOTE]