Ah, but when you put your text into Word, the spell-checker squiggles
under the "colour" words, and unless you have the grammar-checker
turned on, it ignores the hypercorrection "he was nice to my mother
and I" --- an overreaction to "My mother and me went to the store
together." The teachers drilled so much on "My mother and *I* went
to the store" that people started using it everywhere. The downside
to a language with almost nothing left of its declensions is that a
majority of people have no clue what the different between a subject
and an object (direct, indirect, or of a preposition) is!
At 12:50 AM -0500 2/11/06, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
On Feb 11, 2006, at 0:20, Joy Beeson wrote:
At 08:17 PM 2/8/06 -0500, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
The only time I got really mad reading one was when it turned out to be a
bowdlerized "Americanized" version where Mr. Dibbler's famous
sausages-inna-bun had been somehow turned into "hot dogs". Ack. :P
When I first heard of Harry Potter, my initial reaction was that if
the books could be that popular despite being published by
Scholastic, Rowling must be one TERRIFIC writer, to put in enough
good stuff that Scholastic couldn't get it all out.
Scholastic employs equal-opportunity gormless editors -- they mess
up *everybody's* books.
I do, sometimes, wonder about "editing"...
People will use phrases like "he was nice to my mother and I" and it
flies right past the editor's eagle eye (I've been re-reading 25
years' worth of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine for the past couple
of months and gasping at some of the worst offences). OTOH, every
"extra" u I use (in words like "colour") gets corrected by the IOLI
Bulletin's Editor (or the proof-reader)... I don't *mind*, since my
spelling isn't consistent -- I learnt English in the Brit version,
but have spent the past 33 yrs in the US -- but it does seem to me
to be a tad weird
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