[Magdalen] Invites

[Molly Wolf]

I got into a major battle with the warden in my former parish over the compound "you and I" issue.  Despite my long career as editor and writer, she insisted on using the subject "you and I" as an object (which should be "you and me").  I tried the untangling rule (remove the other party) but she would have no part, insisting she was right.  This in a public document which I'd been asked to edit.

I let her have her way in the end, but I was pretty disgusted.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Mar 13, 2016, at 12:53 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What grates on me the most is "between you and I". Grrrrr.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> In a message dated 3/13/2016 12:21:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> michaudme at gmail.com writes:
>> 
>> So-sha
>> 
>> Each time she asked louder, as if I were  old&deaf.
>> 
>> Wassya SOsha?
>> Ya SOsha?
>> YOUR SO-SHA  ???>>>>>>
>> 
>> Maybe an African American teller?
>> 
>> Anyway, the shorthand, "social" for Social Security in the USA
>> is firmly entrenched.
>> 
>> I am bothered more by obvious grammatical/spelling mistakes such
>> as "Febuary" for February, the use of adjectives as adverbs, and
>> the complete USA atrophy of "whom" in the direction of "who."
>> 
>> But, as others are quick to put out, changes in the language are
>> inevitable and cannot be stopped, much as we might like.
>> 
>> After all, the USA is in the midst of a major language transformation
>> with the "Northern Cities Vowel Shift" (Labov).  Who could have
>> predicted that?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> David Strang.
>> 
>> 
>>