No worries - I think three posts hit that community within about a minute. Between you and I, we have different pictures up so it's not that redundant.
The English teacher in charge of grammar and structure in junior high was a woman who made prison guards seem approachable. I'm still a bit traumatized.
Yes, the preposition makes the question interesting, but I still wonder if this particular construction makes his use of 'I' appropriate, being used more as subject than object.
I suspect it does not really matter, either way, even in formal papers.
You know, I could go into a careful argument about why this kind of mockery is problematic, but you and others in this community have been very earnest in trying to create an atmosphere wherein any attempt to make those kinds of arguments or use the kind of terminology you're mocking is just lulz-worthy. Any attempt that I might make to do that ends up stuck as prima facie self-defeating - "self-parody" as you'd prefer to put it.
So that leaves me two options - either silence (which is your goal), or simply this:
I believe a certain amount of self-mockery is essential for a healthy worldview, but this is mocking a genuine issue that is still causing suffering, and against which people and groups are still fighting every day.
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Date: 2013-12-31 12:22 am (UTC)It's the small cuts from your friends that really hurt.
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Date: 2014-01-01 12:37 am (UTC)is the subject rather than an object, but
we need a real grammarian to settle it.
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Date: 2014-01-01 02:46 pm (UTC)I still wonder if this particular construction makes his use of
'I' appropriate, being used more as subject than object.
I suspect it does not really matter, either way, even in formal papers.
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Date: 2013-12-31 03:00 am (UTC)So that leaves me two options - either silence (which is your goal), or simply this:
Fuck you, asshole.
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Date: 2013-12-31 02:18 pm (UTC)I believe a certain amount of self-mockery is essential for a healthy worldview, but this is mocking a genuine issue that is still causing suffering, and against which people and groups are still fighting every day.
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