Re: Digital Negatives & PT/PD / language

[Barry Singer <bsinger@sasktel.net>]

Judy Seigel wrote:

> 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.
>
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