[lit-ideas] Re: Anonymity and revelation...

To which, as you've noted, I replied that I'd never heard that in my life, that is, I've never heard anyone say 'Give it to he.' '

That's what was unclear. You really have to get out more. That's all but
standard usage in business.

Nonsense, Irene. Don't patronize me about 'getting out more.' I didn't say I'd never heard it in my professional life. I said I'd never heard it in my life. Anywhere. Ever. Let's have one bona fide use of this expression from somebody 'in business.' (I'd like to stipulate that the person 'in business' is a native speaker of English, and not some hapless translator in Bangkok.)

That's part of my earlier lament that so
called professionals are glorified plumbers or electricians. All they know
is their craft. Maybe in the ol Ivory Tower they don't talk that way, but
in real life that's how it's done.

Who's the so-called professional here? Moi? What _is_ a so-called professional, by the way, that they should feel diminished by comparing them to plumbers and electricians? Are plumbers and electricians notoriously ungrammatical? Re 'Ivory Tower': are you implying that
I don't know how ordinary people speak? You ought to get out more.

Robert Paul
Reed College
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