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Haus, I thought the not-ending-a-sentence-with-prepositions thing was, like not splitting infinitives, an attempt to make English conform to the rules of, um, Latin? Which is frankly preposterous, and while maybe it's mean to blame Latin, it seems appropriate to blame Latin-besotted grammarians...
Ahem. Anyway.
I want to get rid of the rules which differentiate "that" from "which" and "while" from "whilst", because I can't remember what they are.
I'm torn on whether the accusative forms of pronouns should be retained. On the one hand, as slash writers will know, the only point of heterosexuality is that it makes sex scenes easier to write without constantly having to resort to circumlocutions like "the burly rebel tore the trousers off the leather-clad former bank employee", and if there was (were? Fuck it, let's get rid of the subjunctive as well) only one form of "he", the problem would be exacerbated ("he fucked he comprehensively while he cried he joy aloud", "he thought he might love he").
On the other hand, if we only had one form of all pronouns, I wouldn't have to (a) be tortured by people saying "He told Blake and I that..." or, indeed, "that's between he and I", or (b) hate myself for being pedantic enough to care.
Oddly, I don't care at all about the reverse ("Blake and me were just shagging"). Go figure. |
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