Comments on: Various & Sundry XVI http://www.finkweb.org/various-sundry-xvi/ your friend Rat Fink fires the neurons at random Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:10:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rat Fink http://www.finkweb.org/various-sundry-xvi/#comment-2649 Rat Fink Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:30:21 +0000 http://www.finkweb.org/?p=6877#comment-2649 Ah-ha....exactamente, Mathew. You be up on your Don Henley. :-) Ah-ha….exactamente, Mathew. You be up on your Don Henley. :-)

]]> By: Mathew http://www.finkweb.org/various-sundry-xvi/#comment-2648 Mathew Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:12:45 +0000 http://www.finkweb.org/?p=6877#comment-2648 I'm a little tardy in reading this, but is that an Eagles reference I see? I’m a little tardy in reading this, but is that an Eagles reference I see?

]]> By: Rat Fink http://www.finkweb.org/various-sundry-xvi/#comment-2624 Rat Fink Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:17:17 +0000 http://www.finkweb.org/?p=6877#comment-2624 I do think the preposition rule is pretty much outdated, tell you the truth. I was taught to not do it, and boy did it stick. I really don't have a problem with it at all anymore, *except* for ending a sentence with "at" when one is asking the location of a thing. "Where's it at?" is just redundant -- I think I'm more offended by that aspect than anything else, heh. I do think the preposition rule is pretty much outdated, tell you the truth. I was taught to not do it, and boy did it stick. I really don’t have a problem with it at all anymore, *except* for ending a sentence with “at” when one is asking the location of a thing. “Where’s it at?” is just redundant — I think I’m more offended by that aspect than anything else, heh.

]]> By: Ross http://www.finkweb.org/various-sundry-xvi/#comment-2622 Ross Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:58:59 +0000 http://www.finkweb.org/?p=6877#comment-2622 Deja Vu all over again? The question of prepositions ending sentences, surely this has been addressed in Schmenglish, or elsewhere? Or am I actually having this same conversation many times in other places? Either way, I recall from my salad days as a lousy Clinton intern, when a staff writer wrote a Proclomation from the President for, I dunno, Aardvark Day or something, and the last sentence of one paragraph ended with a preposition (spec., "of."). There was no argument that it sounded very awkward. But I think we concluded - those of us who sadly spent 2-3 years in Latin - that that rule is in fact a descendent of Latin, and not technically wrong in English. Fortunately my Wheeler Latin texts are long gone. But I just checked the Strunk & White bible as well as "Doing Grammar" by Max Morenberg, no mention of this rule. Deja Vu all over again? The question of prepositions ending sentences, surely this has been addressed in Schmenglish, or elsewhere? Or am I actually having this same conversation many times in other places?

Either way, I recall from my salad days as a lousy Clinton intern, when a staff writer wrote a Proclomation from the President for, I dunno, Aardvark Day or something, and the last sentence of one paragraph ended with a preposition (spec., “of.”). There was no argument that it sounded very awkward. But I think we concluded – those of us who sadly spent 2-3 years in Latin – that that rule is in fact a descendent of Latin, and not technically wrong in English.

Fortunately my Wheeler Latin texts are long gone. But I just checked the Strunk & White bible as well as “Doing Grammar” by Max Morenberg, no mention of this rule.

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