Tamara wrote:
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).
The rule I learned was
I don't think it's so much a lack of declensions. In my college Latin
classes when the professor started talking about parts of speech like
direct and indirect objects, you could see eyes glazing over. Lots of
the kids in the class had never even heard of them, let alone know what
they were or
I would respectfully disagree with you - people lost interest in
teaching diagramming because they didn't think grammar was important
- and they could get away with thinking that because the English
language lets people be totally unconcerned about case and gender for
all nouns and adjectives.
Having been an Enid Blyton's Famous Five addict (Julian, Dick, George, Ann
and Timmy the dog) as a child, I offered them to my children in the 1970s.
The only change in the books that I could see was that as England was now using
decimal currency, any time money was mentioned it had been
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
At 09:53 PM 10/7/05 +0100, Jean Leader wrote:
The typo mentioned is probably the result of quick and dirty editing
Since it was the *only* typo I found -- and I'm officially the Chief Nitpicker
of the N3F, so I've had a *lot* of practice at finding typos -- it can't be
quick and dirty
