It did disappear. Perhaps some of the subject lines were becoming a bit too "Redd Foxx-esque" for this family-oriented forum. I know I blushed at one or two.
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Birds to a feather... JP has been bombarded by spammers lately probably because of keeping the spam around.
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I've been getting killed by spam at work, too. Here's an article from NYT that explains why.
Spam is back, and worse than ever
Brad Stone / New York Times
Hearing from a lot of new friends lately? You know, the ones that write "It's me, Esmeralda," and tip you off to an obscure stock that is "poised to explode" or a great deal on prescription drugs.
You're not the only one. Spam is back -- in e-mail in-boxes and on everyone's minds. In the past six months, the problem has gotten measurably worse. Worldwide spam volumes have doubled from last year, according to Ironport, a spam filtering firm, and unsolicited junk mail now accounts for more than 9 out of every 10 e-mail messages sent over the Internet.
Much of that flood is made up of a nettlesome new breed of junk e-mail called image spam, in which the words of the advertisement are part of a picture, often fooling traditional spam detectors that look for telltale phrases. Image spam increased fourfold from last year and now represents 25 percent to 45 percent of all junk e-mail, depending on the day, according to Ironport.
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It is I or it is me?
It is I or it is me? According to the Merriam Webster's Dictionary of the English Language,"...instead of the old choice between right and wrong we are now choosing a style; it is a choice that is much closer to the reality of usage than the old one was...Clearly, both the it is I and it's me patterns are in reputable use and have been for a considerable time. It is I tends to be used in more formal or more stuffy situations; it's me predominates in real and fictional speech and in a more relaxed writing style. Him, her, us, and them may be less common after the verb to be than me is, but they are far from rare and are equally good" (566, 568).
However, the sentence used in the explaination is a declarative, where as in Fish's, it's a question and questions have tendancies to swap subject and object nouns.
Here's a good site for explaining when to use I or me:
However, the sentence used in the explaination is a declarative, where as in Fish's, it's a question and questions have tendancies to swap subject and object nouns.
Here's a good site for explaining when to use I or me:
However, the sentence used in the explaination is a declarative, where as in Fish's, it's a question and questions have tendancies to swap subject and object nouns.
Here's a good site for explaining when to use I or me:
Well, I beg to disagree. The "new" rules of English grammar may see it differently, since we tend to change the rules because people refuse to speak correctly.
"It" is in the nominative case. What follows is a linking verb. You then have the subjective complement, which, of course, in this case is the word "I." Being the subjective complement it must be in the nominative case as well.
"Me" is in the objective case which cannot follow a linking verb which makes it, effectively, the subjective complement.
Of course, speaking the sentence correctly is now labeled by your Dr. Grammar as being formal or stuffy. As we do so often today, especially in our schools, let us simply cater to the lowest common denominator among us and not learn to speak correctly, for surely that is not the popular thing to do. I actually know when to use "I" or "me." Most of the rest of the world does not and the grammarians are giving in.
Please don't get me wrong. I use the incorrect form, myself, in casual conversation. Most people do, but it does not make it correct in the true grammatical sense.
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John, if you're really bothered by how we change the language to accomodate people who won't speak it correctly, perhaps you should start speaking in olde english?
hark, i say to ye, pray tell, from wence i came i shall soon enough return, for with quick feet the lord shall cometh to take my soul away, good sir!
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John, if you're really bothered by how we change the language to accomodate people who won't speak it correctly, perhaps you should start speaking in olde english?
hark, i say to ye, pray tell, from wence i came i shall soon enough return, for with quick feet the lord shall cometh to take my soul away, good sir!
And the problem with that would be?
I am just pulling fish's leg on this one, but somehow I end up defending the language. LOL
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I am just pulling fish's leg on this one, but somehow I end up defending the language. LOL
There you go again, John. Fish have fins, not legs.... oh wait a minute maybe in your day fish were just starting to come out of the water and walk on to the land....
Nevermind
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