[lit-ideas] Re: Anonymity and revelation...
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:16:40 -0500
> [Original Message]
> From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 1/30/2006 9:43:32 PM
> Subject: [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.)
All right. Next time I come across something relevant, I'll redact it and
send you an example. Maybe I'll compile a few. The fact that you never,
ever in your life heard people talk that way is astonishing. We obviously
live in different worlds, yours on a much higher level than mine.
>
> > 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.
>
They're not diminished, they equated. And, I wasn't talking about
academics. I was talking about "professionals". My dentist, for example,
never heard of Kurt Vonnegut. Needless to say, I dropped it. By and
large, most people are ungrammatical, except of course the people in your
world, who all speak pristine English.
> Robert Paul
> Reed College
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