Look, I like to make sure I use the best English possible myself, but who appointed all of you clowns the Grammar Nazi's? Same thing with 4-letter codes - if you don't like it, chill out and don't cause an argument. What Burt and this guy Scott and others have done is create an unnecessary argument on this forum. Burt even had to go vulgar to make his point because he apparently isn't smart enough (or doesn't care enough) to realize that kids use this forum too. You people should stop patting each other on the back and get a life. In fact, go look at some birds and regain your perspective, because as of now, y'all have lost it.

Brett A. Wolfe
Seattle, WA
m_lincolnii at yahoo.com

--- On Mon, 4/27/09, Scott R a y <mryakima at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Scott R a y <mryakima at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] words, words, words
To: "Guttman,Burton" <GuttmanB at evergreen.edu>, "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 8:51 PM

Burt,

Amen.? You can count me in, too. ?

There are a number of other irritants along these lines, number one among them being the incorrect use of "myself," instead of "me" or "I."?



As in, "If you have any questions, be sure to call myself."? WRONG. ? Correct would be ME

Or, in, "John and myself saw a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher."? WRONG.? Correct would be I



Scott


Scott R a y
Yakima, WA
mryakima at gmail dot com



On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Guttman,Burton <GuttmanB at evergreen.edu> wrote:









Oh, I know I'm gonna get my ass rapped for this, and people are going to call me a snob and a jerk and all kinds of other things.? But, friends, I think of the good folks on Tweeters as intelligent and well-educated, and mistakes in language are beneath them.? And, also, I can't stand to let English go down the drain any more than it has already.


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Friends and colleagues, there are three homophones in English that we must not keep?confusing:
?????? 1.? sight:? as a verb, to see something; as a noun, something one has seen.? "I sighted a Merlin overhead."
???????2.? site:? as a noun, a certain place, such as the place where building stands; as a verb, to place something on a site, as, "We are going to site the memorial on this site."


?????? 3.? cite:? only a verb, meaning (1) to call on someone to appear, as before a court; (2) to quote or mention as an example or authority; (3) to mention formally for commendation or praise; or (4) to call to someone's attention.


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Okay, go ahead and shoot.? But it's really distressing to have intelligent people tell us that they've "sited" an interesting bird.? If we don't maintain some standards for our language, pretty soon we'll have like people y'know like saying that they saw this like interesting bird.


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Cheers,
Burt
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Burt Guttman
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505????? guttmanb at evergreen.edu
Home:? 7334 Holmes Island Road S. E., Olympia, 98503
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