[Rhodes22-list] Grammar

[Philip]

It's object and direct object et al.  The Dative, Accusative, Nominative and
Genitive exist in German too (". . . in den Wagen" (acc) or ". . . auf dem
Tisch" (dat) (in the car or on the table)).  Since we don't parse the
grammar that way anymore, nothing sounds strange to anyone and people add
things to sound important.  It is the same with the word irregardless.  I
knew an Australian fellow who used it incessantly.  I tried to correct him
and he insisted it was a legitimate word.  I defied him to look it up and
show me but he never would.

Philip


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[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org]  On Behalf Of Joseph Hadzima
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Subject:	Re: [Rhodes22-list]  Grammar

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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