RE: Digital Negatives & PT/PD / language
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table... T.S Eliot -- The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock -----Original Message----- From: Judy Seigel [mailto:jseigel@panix.com] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:36 PM To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: Digital Negatives & PT/PD / language On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Ender100@aol.com wrote: . .... I hope you will consider joining Dick and I in this exciting > workshop. Now Mark, I hope you will consider writing 100 times why "joining Dick and I" is an utterly vile and wretched solecism, one of the worst possible in the English language, as could cause fainting in the aisles at a copy editors' convention (although obviously it aspires to be correct). Now you may ask why I don't say this offlist. Because I don't wish to sound wretched myself, and the more it is said, the more the ear expects it. (In fact some friends of mine who, amazingly, are still friends, have to be corrected repeatedly.) But a hint: It's the compound that throws people off. Children are corrected when they say, "Me and my friend went to a workshop." Yet they wouldn't say "Me went to a workshop." And you wouldn't say "Join I in this exciting workshop." You'd say "Join me." I trust you will forgive me. I write for the common good as well as my own. J. ========================================================================= Read My T-Shirt for President: A True History of the Political Front _ and Back >www.frontandbackpress.com< ........................................................................ A reader writes: "I'd recommend it for a Pulitzer Prize, except I lack the credentials."
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