Didn't the teacher know his/her Shakespeare? This is I, Hamlet the Dane,
you should have said, you wonder-wounded hearer!
mjay
Joanna Boulter wrote:
> Ah, you are speaking to one who was pulled up for being ungrammatical
> at school, when she said 'It is I.'
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 6:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Poem for Colin
>
>
>> May I invite you to join the Fuddy-Duddy-Grammar Club, as it were,
>> then, Joanna? There are several vacancies, as it happens... :-!
>> mjay
>>
>> Joanna Boulter wrote:
>>
>>> I use it, Martin, and shall continue to do so.
>>>
>>> joanna
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 5:21 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Poem for Colin
>>>
>>>
>>>> I might have known once what that word means - could you possibly
>>>> explain it, if it were possible, of course, I'd never insist that
>>>> one do so...
>>>> Interesting, Dave, that you explicitly pointed out the
>>>> "ungrammatical" omission of the subjunctive: as a long-time expat
>>>> (which means exiled from Patrick, of course, never to see that
>>>> gleaming zimmerframe hurtle towards me in a silver blur) I was
>>>> convinced that it had even become standard to write "if I was"
>>>> etc, as I see it online in the press all the time. From my
>>>> infrequent visits to Britain I know that "if I were" etc is a thing
>>>> of the past, even among academics.
>>>> cheers
>>>> mjay
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> The self that shines in the greying sunshine
>> of the immediate is actual, though it is
>> not all that is there. - Douglas Oliver
>>
>
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The self that shines in the greying sunshine
of the immediate is actual, though it is
not all that is there. - Douglas Oliver
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