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To: Argh; xsmommy; Jack Deth

What's the right English?

It wasn't me? Or.....

It wasn't I?

('Cause I know I don't no know nuttin' 'bout no English ....)

JD, on the otter hand, is gonna keep peltin' me with his self-centered poemtry and high-fillet-lootin' morays.


139 posted on 07/20/2005 1:44:39 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

I wouldn't mind being pelted with a fillet about now.


141 posted on 07/20/2005 1:48:04 PM PDT by Dutchgirl (Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it." --C. S. L)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE; Jack Deth
"JD, on the otter hand, is gonna keep peltin' me with his self-centered poemtry and high-fillet-lootin' morays."Jack is pelting you with eels?
144 posted on 07/20/2005 1:52:06 PM PDT by Slip18
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

The verb "to be" is intransitive, it never takes an object, therefore the correct form is the nominative (I think that's what we called it in Latin). "It is I" is correct. "It is me" is incorrect, but it's what everybody says, and the world won't come to an end if we're all wrong. Or so I've been made to believe.


146 posted on 07/20/2005 1:54:20 PM PDT by Argh
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