Because I make my living as a proofreader/copyeditor, people often jokily (and with a certain ingratiating submissiveness) ask me if I am always going to be correcting their grammar. My answer is "No," for two reasons. 1) It's very rude to correct people's speech or writing unless they ask you to. 2) I don't work for free.
But, yes, I do always notice, even if I don't always say anything. A sudden, brief rigidness in my posture or a fixed quality to my gaze is a dead giveaway.
A lot of you notice as well, and if you'll send me your howlers, gaffes, and malapropisms I will get outraged and then write a correction in a way that is both funny and shaming, and the social contract will be fulfilled.
I have a job downtown again, so the opportunities for calling out business-ese will be virtually limitless. I'd love to reach out to you about that.
