We’re off today and tomorrow (July 3 and 4) for the US Independence Day Holiday.
Friday’s post about grammar policing (and Richard Sever’s response, that the post was something “up with which he will not put” reminded me of one of my favorite songs that carefully follows the (now largely archaic) notion that one should not a sentence with a preposition. Hence, the chorus below from The Magnetic Fields, “the rest of life pales in significance, I’m looking for somebody with whom to dance.”
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So they put me and other members of the C class in remedial english for which I had to travel two hours through Sunday morning church traffic on the subway lines of NYCity to reach the class. I didn’t quite know what to make of the instruction ‘don’t end a sentence with a proposition’. I got left back in remedial english.