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MY CONFESSION OF GRAMMATICAL ERROR (COMMENT).

May 10, 2010 at 9:13 PM · Uncategorized

MY CONFESSION OF GRAMMATICAL ERROR (COMMENT). Mary Jane gave me a note asking me to change the wording of my post on the Bryan twins, and I have done so. The post originally had a sentence which read: “Dick comments that he never saw my brother and I doing that.” I have changed the “I” to “me.” I posted here about how linguists like John McWhorter don’t care about this issue. Reading McWhorter’s book changed my mind. I now agree with him that these grammatical points are not important. Nevertheless, I find myself greatly embarrassed.

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Mary Jane Schaefer May 22, 2010 at 8:19 PM

Because you DID it, or because you were CAUGHT?

Referenced in: “ALL RIGHT” AND “ALL ONE”.