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Oh I do, I do. The question is, am I doing it correctly?!?! 😉
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As long as it’s silent Izaak, we remain our own judge and jury. Yes?
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Yep, me too. The most common error that piques me: using “I” for “me” and vice versa. But look, I did it too, in the first sentence here. Gadzooks!
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When I was in Catholic school (very briefly) we were never allowed to use “me.” Grammar be damned!
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Elyse – which one? Surely our shared history can’t extend to grade schools – can it?
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St. Patrick’s in Bridgeport. Before we moved to Westport. It was for a very short time … took me years to say “Moe and Me” …
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The Cathedral, eh? At Park Ave and Fairfield Ave. Remember it well. I was at St. Thomas in Fairfield.
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Ummm no. Our St Pat’s was on North Ave and Main Street. It was a lovely stone church. But there were a lot of Irish in Bpt. There were likely a bunch of St Pats!
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Damn! The diocese’ Cathedral was the one on Ffld Ave. Never knew there was another.
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Jim – for me it’s “less” for “fewer” – makes me crazy!!!
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No wonder we’re friends. This error makes me nuts! Does no TV writer know the difference?
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Me too. It’s like there are red pens in my veins!
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@ Elyse,
😆 Never allowed? Really? That’s funny, in a sad way. Behold, the objective case is hereby banished! 😆
In my first year at the Naval Academy, all 1,200 of us were issued the Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers, the first section of which was grammar. Every academic department had its head and he of English I’m sure thought it of fundamental importance. After all, none less than John Paul Jones himself had declared that every officer ought be a refined gentleman in every sense. I doubt there was any textbook less tasked than that one in our engineering curriculum, but at leaf it was there!
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The expectations on you were probably more serious than me as a 1st and 2nd grader!
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Aha – it appears that all the ‘better’ people do exactly as I do!
Jim – in my Catholic grade school (just around the corner Elyse!) grammar and enunciation were drummed into us every day. If you visited the town, you’d find that every person who’d been taught by the nuns – be they collecting your garbage or writing your mortgage – spoke perfect English.
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And spelling. I can tell by replies to Facebook posts who went to Catholic school and who didn’t. My pet is “its” vs “it’s” — I used to tell my students they’d lose 10 points if I spotted this in a paper. Now I have to add “their” and “there” and “they’re” 😦
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Plus plural possessives Pat – they’ve lost the s’.
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And we’re, where and wear. They were strict in Brooklyn public schools also.
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