[Rhodes22-list] Grammar

[Joseph Hadzima]

Hi elle

I'll add my frustrations to your last post ... the phrase
that gets me now is "bla bla in length", or "the thingy is
blue in color".  Many many moons ago I attended a technical
writing course, and was taught you don't insert the "in"
word. I was taught something was 8 inches long, 12 feet
wide, and 22 stories high (tall), and the building was
blue.  Why do we need to add the word "in"?  

People ride IN an aplane, but we say "I took a ride ON a
plane" (in this example at least the French say it
correctly).  Are we as a nation attemting to compensate for
our past discrination of the word "in" in favor of "on"? 
Did the rules change, and I not get the memo?




HADZ (a.k.a. joe)

If I'm so "crazy," then why did they choose me to be their
spokesperson to the people of Earth?

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