"Most Americans are bilingual and don’t even know it. Because in addition to their native language, they learn at an early age (as did I) to speak “Cliché.” So instead of “acquaint yourself with,” they’ll insist on the more common expression “get to know.” Instead of “think no more of it,” they’ll dumb that down to the insufferable “fuhget about it.” Multiply those two examples by a thousand, and you’ve got yourself a terribly bad case of UAD: ugly American diction."