HOW TO MAKE AN ACTRESS LOOK LIKE A MORON.

A frequently run commercial these days is for Lazik Plus promoting—what else?—lasic surgery. While otherwise harmless and forgettable, it ends with a clip that drives me mad. It show a young woman who delivers what these idiots consider a good punch line. It would be if it were delivered correctly, but it is so grammatically incorrect it is sure to annoy any sane grammarian and it makes the woman who delivers it look like an illiterate, especially since she follows this error with a kind of self-satisfied giggle. The completely ungrammatical line? "I wish I would have done this sooner." This should obviously should have been, "I wish I had done this sooner."

Note: While I couldn't find a shot of the female model, I was shocked to discover that other commercials use this illiterate line. This actor uses it on a commercial for bariatric surgery.