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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG>Yup, and don't dare forget -- no one,
everyone, everybody, someone, anyone -- they all must be followed by the
personal pronouns "him," "her," "his" or "hers" -- NEVER by "them" or
"their." They're all mandatorily singular.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG>For examples of well-paid professional
illiteracy, watch the local TV news almost every night! (They're TV Talking
Heads hired to be pretty to look at. I was in print
journalism.)</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG>btw the above Grammar Law is one of
hundreds of English grammar rules which are entirely arbitrary and synthetic,
most from the late 19th century, pedants demanding we speak English this way
because that's how the Romans spoke Latin. (Actually, the best-educated
Romans spoke a lot of Greek, the dying Caesar said "Et tu, Brute?" in Greek.)
</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG>Even "The Elements of Style" (Strunk and
E.B. White) reeks of pedantic synthetic arbitrariness.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG>They're just pedants. Don't let 'em scare
you. Also, if you use their perfect grammar in a saloon, somebody
might punch you in the nose.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New">You just might be a pedant if, when the
phone voice asks "May I speak to Joe Jones?" do you reply, "That's me" or "This
is I"?</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG>Bob</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><STRONG>P.S. Wystan Hugh Auden didn't
like Schikaneder's Freemason-code libretto for "The Magic Flute," so
he wrote his own original English libretto. Anybody got it? I've never been able
to find it. I don't even know if it was ever performed.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New">Auden just got a huge unexpected burst of
popularity when his poem "Funeral Blues" was read in the 1994 movie "Four
Weddings and a Funeral."</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Courier New"></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Stop all the clocks, cut off the
telephone,<BR>Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,<BR>Silence the
pianos and with muffled drum<BR>Bring out the coffin, let the mourners
come.<BR></FONT>
<P><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">Let aeroplanes circle moaning
overhead<BR>Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,<BR>Put crêpe bows
round the white necks of the public doves, <BR>Let the traffic policemen
wear black cotton gloves.<BR></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">He was my North, my South, my East and
West,<BR>My working week and my Sunday rest,<BR>My noon, my midnight, my talk,
my song;<BR>I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.<BR></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Palatino Linotype">The stars are not wanted now: put out every
one;<BR>Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;<BR>Pour away the ocean and sweep
up the wood.<BR>For nothing now can ever come to any
good.</FONT></P> </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=rubatoatm@gmail.com href="mailto:rubatoatm@gmail.com">Anita
Monroe</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=f_minor@glenngould.org
href="mailto:f_minor@glenngould.org">Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn
Gould.</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 22, 2012 10:33
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [f_minor] OH NO - No One
Again</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR></DIV>Mary, Not to worry.
It's easily repaired. I was a grammar teacher for several years,
and made war on "noone". One year I charted the grammar mistakes made by
my gifted students, and "noone" stood as number one. It truly is a
sneaky, virtually addictive error. I started a chart on the board and we
made a joke of counting how many times it showed up.
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Yes, I enjoyed the Auden/Benjamin Britten collaboration. Where in
the world did you find it?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Best,</DIV>
<DIV>Anita<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:58 PM, maryellen jensen <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com"
target=_blank>maryellenjensen28@hotmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr><BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" size=3>Anita,
everyone,<BR><BR>As soon as I hit the the send button I knew I had done it
again: "<B>noone</B>" and I cringed a thousand cringes but alas it <BR>was
too late. Anita I shall do better in the future and point taken 100 percent.
Why does it happen? Drives me crazy.<BR><BR>Anita, did you like the W.H.
Auden/Benjamin Britten collaboration?<BR><BR>Mary the repeat offender
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