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Originally posted by tmdiva
A headline on the Oregonian the other day talked about how US troops were moving "perceptively" closer to Baghdad. ARGH.
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Ah, yes, the old using-the-wrong-word-to-sound-more-intelligent trick.
What gets me ballistic is the phrase "between you and I," which is apparently seared in the collective conscious, most likely through the concerted efforts of careless 4th grade teachers who tell their students that "between me and you" sounds impolite and barbaric
without telling them that it is neverthless grammatically correct. So the "me" and "you" get reversed so as to avoid sounding impolite, and the "me" gets replaced with "I" so as to avoid sounding barbaric. Compounding the problem are songs like
Life is a Highway by Tom Cochrane, which managed to get unjustifiably frequent airplay many years ago:
Life is a highway.
I want to ride it all night long.
If you're going my way,
I want to drive it all night long.
There was a distance between you and I.
A misunderstanding once, but now,
We look it in the eye. (emphasis added)
