[lit-ideas] Re: It's I
- From: "atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 10:26:12 -0500
JL:
> KEEP IGNORING my subtle corrections. I hope you can explain what you
meant
> by the ungrammatical,
>
> "I'm me".
>
> I mean, "It's me" is pretty ungrammatical, but "I'm me" seems to beat
them
> all. Recall that 'is' is the copula. It's already an irregular verb with
> irregular habits.
Like God, I don't need no excuse for my existence or my grammar. I be just
me, in all my glory and grammar and uffish sentimentality. I feel sorry
for those bound by rules. I know people who actually say: "I am he." (or
she as the case my be, unless transgendered, but that gets too
complicated). Me? I usually say simply: "I am." But unlike Neil Diamond,
I never sing it, even if there's no one there. Singing is so show-offy and
beamish, whereas the me of me be a retiring kinda guy. Happy to sip mine
tea and watch the universe expand. Consider: "The most important thing in
Switzerland is Switzer's land." Consider that.
That considered, we can move on to the first commandment ever of God given
to Adam and Eve: "Thou shalt not copula." They did. Hence us are. We be
because of copulas. Even God can't control copula, what makes you
grammarians thinks y'all can?
Mike Geary
Grammar is for Grouches.
Memphis
>
> "The best thing in Switzerland is the mountains"
> "The best thing in Switzerland ARE the mountains."
> "The mountains ARE the best thingS in Swizterland"
> "The mountains is the best things in Swtizerland"
>
> ---
>
> In Attic Greek, the problem was solved by dropping 'is' altogether
"metron
> pramaton panton anthropos", "man (is) the measure of all things".
>
> "I'm me"
>
> I am me.
>
> "am" followed by the accusative.
>
> "I suck me" yes, but "I AM me"?
>
> ----
>
> "I suck my own toe", yes. But "I AM me".
>
> Suppose by the law of reflexivity you reciprocate:
>
> I AM ME
>
> therefore
>
> ME AM I?
>
> ----
>
> Have you tried teaching English to others?
>
> ----
>
> JLS
>
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>
> In a message dated 5/27/2010 4:28:17 A.M., jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx
> writes:
> "I am me." It doesn't mean I'm the person standing in from of you, it
> could mean many things depending on the circumstances in which it was
> uttered
> -- I'm me! I'm not.....(whatever, whoever) you think I am or should be
or
> need me to be.
>
>
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