atw: ASTC NSW Newsletter 107

Hi folks,

 

I think that there are a couple of contentious items in the latest
Newsletter.

 

1. The Bawa piece [pp10, 11], where she claims that the eye muscles need
to adjust the focus for different colours; this may be the case if
someone has severe chromatic aberration or some form of astigmatism -
but for most of us, under fairly well lit conditions, our eyes are
perfectly capable of resolving colours without twitching our eye
muscles. I'm not sure I would accept much else that she asserts, without
a great deal of research support - it all seems like a newby spouting
Whitbread froth.

2. The Byrd piece [p11] - the third example [We will elect
whoever/whomever is the best candidate.] can be resolved by one of her
tricks to get a different answer: if the sentence were rewritten as 'We
will elect him/her' then we get the 'whomever' solution. To achieve her
solution, we need to state that 'He/She is the best candidate' is a noun
clause standing as an object - which she claimed we did not need to do.
What I'm getting at is that her simple solutions don't always work - a
33% fail rate is not good for a rule of thumb.

 

Regards,

Brian.

 




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