Who would have thought that an article inspired by the description “long ass” would go viral? Certainly not me. I hope you enjoy reading the article and, especially, the discussion in the comments section. You’ll get a good laugh if nothing else!

When I was a young man I was typically disparaging about Americans and their mangling of our wonderful language, as I saw it. Why, I wondered, can’t they spell things properly? Why do they say “different than” rather than “different to”? Why do they say “I could care less” when, by any logic, it should be “I could not care less.”?

But all of that attitude was dissipated by my trip to Los Angeles to visit my cousin.

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