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ME AND MY FRIEND VS. MY FRIEND AND I

For the Annals of Inter-generational Communication, the following report. Twice in the last week younger people of my acquaintance made a remarkable grammatical self-correction mid- sentence. Emily and Amanda, both around 30, in separate conversations with people of their parents’ generation, began to start a sentence with “me and my friend, (my sister, whatever)…” and […]

September 27, 2016 – 1:16 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Correct English: a line in the sand [op-ed CCT 26 August 2008]

I’m sitting around a fire on the beach with a couple of writer friends contemplating the end of the world. Sort of. The blaze we stare into seems a good metaphor for the voracious computerization that is consuming writing as we know it (books and newspapers and such). We lament the erosion of language itself, […]

July 20, 2012 – 12:01 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)