In the spirit of unusual baby names...
Jul. 16th, 2008 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightrosefoxhttp://community.livejournal.com/grammar_whores/4267759.html
Seriously, the only way I will ever accept that atrocious misuse of "I" when one means "me" or "my" is if a person is actually named I.
Someone, please, tell me what happened to grammar education in the last decade? And when did adults start using bad grammar like it had all of a sudden become okay? Why do intelligent TV and radio show hosts throw around (for example) "This is Eddie and I's first interview with a movie star" or "Direct all your questions to Tony and I" like it's the right way to say it? Has language really changed? If so, why was I not informed? Did I miss a memo? When has it ever, ever been okay to misuse the pronoun I this way? Why is it so difficult for people nowadays to grasp the rules about subjective and objective nouns/pronouns? What happened to education? Even outside of school?
Who is "I"? Who the bloody fuck is this I person, and when did he get so popular?
/random rant
In related news, unusual first names are starting to grow on me. I no longer mock them. I had a dream last night where a lady I chatted with on a bus wanted to name her unborn twins "Volcano Insurance (male) and Cloud Insurance (female)[last name]" and I thought it was awesome. She got it from an episode of Family Guy. I woke up from the dream laughing, I swear.
Seriously, the only way I will ever accept that atrocious misuse of "I" when one means "me" or "my" is if a person is actually named I.
Someone, please, tell me what happened to grammar education in the last decade? And when did adults start using bad grammar like it had all of a sudden become okay? Why do intelligent TV and radio show hosts throw around (for example) "This is Eddie and I's first interview with a movie star" or "Direct all your questions to Tony and I" like it's the right way to say it? Has language really changed? If so, why was I not informed? Did I miss a memo? When has it ever, ever been okay to misuse the pronoun I this way? Why is it so difficult for people nowadays to grasp the rules about subjective and objective nouns/pronouns? What happened to education? Even outside of school?
Who is "I"? Who the bloody fuck is this I person, and when did he get so popular?
/random rant
In related news, unusual first names are starting to grow on me. I no longer mock them. I had a dream last night where a lady I chatted with on a bus wanted to name her unborn twins "Volcano Insurance (male) and Cloud Insurance (female)[last name]" and I thought it was awesome. She got it from an episode of Family Guy. I woke up from the dream laughing, I swear.
