Chris Berman of ESPN became another victim of Nominative Case over-usage during his recap of the Baltimore / New England football game. Referring to the Patriots owner Robert Kraft, he said “…It’s been an emotional year for he and his family…” No, Chris, it’s been an emotional year for him and his family. You don’t think [...]
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Nominative Case Violation: Chris Berman
Posted in Him & Her & Me, tagged Chris Berman, ESPN, Robert Kraft on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Nominative Case Violation: Tony Dungy
Posted in Dan Patrick, Him & Her & Me, Sports Radio, tagged ablative case, Indianapolis Colts, Rodney Harrison, Tony Dungy on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sasoc fights to preserve and defend the dative, accusative, and ablative cases inherent in the English language. This is because in the last 20 years otherwise educated people have feared that use of these cases makes them sound stupid, but they have it exactly backwards. While it is incorrect and stupid-sounding to say “Me and him threw [...]
Nominative Case Violation: Karl Ravech
Posted in Him & Her & Me, tagged ablative, accusative, dative, ESPN, Karl Ravech, nominative case on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sasoc fights to preserve and defend the dative, accusative, and ablative cases inherent in the English language. This is because in the last 20 years otherwise educated people have feared that use of these cases makes them sound stupid, but they have it exactly backwards. While it is incorrect and stupid-sounding to say “Me and him threw [...]
Nominative case violation: Jim Gray
Posted in Dan Patrick, Him & Her & Me, Sports Radio, tagged ablative, accusative, dative, English language, grammar, Jim Gray, LeBron James, nominative on July 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sasoc fights to preserve and defend the dative, accusative, and ablative cases inherent in the English language. This is because in the last 20 years otherwise educated people have feared that use of these cases makes them sound stupid, but they have it exactly backwards. While it is true that saying “Me and him threw [...]
Clausen
Posted in Dan Patrick, Him & Her & Me, tagged Clausen on April 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jimmy Clausen, quarterback of Notre Dame, is about to be drafted by the NFL and had this to say on a well-listened to national sports radio program: “….it’s just an exciting time for my family and I…” I’m sure it is, Jimmy, but now that you’re college edumacated, the proper phrase would be “…for my [...]
