[HPFGU-OTChatter] Correct Grammar (was Open Email to Yahoo Feedback/Try Yahoo Investor Relations
Dina Lerret
bunniqula at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 22:14:12 UTC 2005
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:46:29 -0000, Tonks <tonks_op at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley"
> <dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> >
> > Um, why is that bad grammar? It's slightly better usage to
> > say "Russell and me", but I don't think he violated any
> grammatical
> > rule, and there might be an extraneaous reason for the order he
> used.
> >
>
> Tonks now:
> I know that younger people these days speak that way, but it is
> WRONG. And I just hate to see the language go downhill like this.
Heh, I believe JKR uses the 'me and Name' somewhere in the books.
Anyway, I believe there's actually somewhere online where they cite
certain qualification for 'me and Name' being correct.
{dig, dig, dig, finds one example}
http://www.geocities.com/widremann/language/pronouns.html
Dina
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