Arrgh, redux

[featherynscale]

Of absolutely no interest to anyone but me, just noting my own degeneration and decline.

Yesterday afternoon, I wrote "you're" in a post, when I meant "your". And I didn't notice it until this morning.

That's it, I'm going to have to hand in my grammar police badge now.

Comments

[zylch.livejournal.com]

No, the "at" can stay where it is. The whole "One ought not end a sentence with a preposition" 'rule' comes from 18th century grammarians who took the word "preposition" literally, as something placed before something else (fr. 'pre-pono', I place before). So they declared that by its nature a preposition had to come before some other word, any other word, no matter how silly it sounded, but not at the end. It's almost as silly as the 'rule' that one should not split an infinitive. The rationale for that one is that Greek and Latin don't split their infinitives. Well, duh!, they express the infinitive with one word, not two.

This is the sort of pedantic nonsense up with which I shall not put!

And yes, the midterm went poorly as expected. Any time the last sentence you write on an exam is "I'm sorry, I'll stop wasting both our time now," that's not a good sign. Oh well.