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Re: Digital Negatives & PT/PD / language


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  • Subject: Re: Digital Negatives & PT/PD / language
  • From: Bill William <iodideshi@yahoo.co.jp>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:26:11 +0900 (JST)
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Judy, 
(B
(BTrue, languages are in constant evolution, and "The Rules"
(Bare often slow to keep up with the rest of us!
(B
(Bbut are you sure that 
(B
(B"Me and my friend went to a workshop."
(B
(Bis right 
(B
(Band that 
(B
(B"...consider joining Dick and I in this exciting
(Bworkshop." 
(B
(Bis wrong?
(B
(BI seem to recall that the "rule" was that the first person
(Bsingular was "I" when it was the subject and "me" when it
(Bwas the object of the verb. 
(B
(BCould please confirm/clarify???
(B
(Bon or off,
(B
(BThanks!
(B
(BRay
(B
(B----------------------------
(B--- Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com> wrote:
(B
(B> 
(B> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Ender100@aol.com wrote:
(B> 
(B> . ....  I hope you will consider joining Dick and I
(B> in this exciting
(B> > workshop.
(B> 
(B> Now Mark, I hope you will consider writing 100 times
(B> why "joining Dick and 
(B> I" is an utterly vile and wretched solecism, one of
(B> the worst possible in 
(B> the English language, as could cause fainting in the
(B> aisles at a copy 
(B> editors' convention (although obviously it aspires
(B> to be correct).
(B> 
(B> Now you may ask why I don't say this offlist.
(B> 
(B> Because I don't wish to sound wretched myself, and
(B> the more it is said, 
(B> the more the ear expects it.  (In fact some friends
(B> of mine who, 
(B> amazingly, are still friends, have to be corrected
(B> repeatedly.)
(B> 
(B> But a hint:  It's the compound that throws people
(B> off. Children are 
(B> corrected when they say, "Me and my friend went to a
(B> workshop." Yet they 
(B> wouldn't say "Me went to a workshop." And you
(B> wouldn't say "Join I in this 
(B> exciting workshop."  You'd say "Join me."
(B> 
(B> I trust you will forgive me. I write for the common
(B> good as well as my 
(B> own.
(B> 
(B> J.
(B
(B
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