> [Original Message] > From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html