Yes, my screaming title belies my better sense of netiquette. However, any public upheavel (however small) regarding bad grammar is welcomed, especially in a digital age in which both clever and clumsy subversions of grammar and diction are often more lauded than impeccable prose.
Lower Hudson Valley journalist Phil Reisman got nabbed by a "raft of e-mail" for an incorrect use of pronouns in the following phrase:
"By the time the illness struck my wife and I, it was a full-fledged Category 5 that brought me weeping to my knees."
As he notes, "It should haven been 'struck my wife and me.' Man, this kills me. A perfectly good line about throwing up was all but ruined by a dumb mistake. I don't know, but this could very well be a bad omen for the rest of 2008."
Well, I hate to say it, Reisman, but what kills one person might give another new faith in...well, something. Thank you, Reisman, for being the sacrificial lamb of good grammar.
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