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From: Carole Allen on 19 Jul 2006 01:56 On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:58:13 -0500, barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk wrote: >For example, formulations such as "me and Antony" are now not only >universally understood but also don't grate on very many people as being >'wrong' - I'd say they have effectively /become/ grammatically acceptable. > Bite your tongue.
From: Carole Allen on 19 Jul 2006 01:58 >barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk writes: > >> I meant in the context "Me and Antony went to the store". > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:03:50 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Some people accept that construction. I tend to say "Antony and I >went to the store," and certainly that is the form I teach, since it >is best to teach only the most strictly correct English to English >learners. > The old trick, take out the plural. "Me went to the store." or for "me and him" "him went to the store." The obvious error jumps out at you. Yeah, great, for a 3 year old. Nothing acceptable about it.
From: Mxsmanic on 19 Jul 2006 02:36 Carole Allen writes: > You said: > " A compromised immune system will produce fewer symptoms, not > more. Of course, if they become infected with something else, all > bets are off--but then it's not a common cold any more. " > > Reading carefully, that IS what you said - producing fewer symptoms is > warding off a [cold] virus better - the subject was a cold virus No, that is not what I said. You are paraphrasing based on your misunderstanding of what I said. I said nothing about warding anything off. I said that a compromised immune system will produce fewer symptoms, not more. That's not the same thing. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 19 Jul 2006 02:37 David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy writes: > Sorry, my mistake. So, you're a masochistic humourless arsehole then. No. It's not a question of one or the other. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 19 Jul 2006 02:38
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) writes: > No, you appear to be a masochist. Being tolerant makes me a masochist? Should I cry and stamp my foot like all the children here do when they feel slighted? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |