—their being the sentences, the compound ones to whose (witches!?!*) qualifications I am currently referring in reference to—the meaning of them a-and their misplaced prepositions, they are all of the lot of them lost, not only in the aforementioned revisions to the which (witch!?!) of which I then thus alluded to and because in the title of this post, whose** intentions vis-a-vis matters grammatical annoys in a manner distinctly circumlocutory. In short and sum, that is to say, to put it another way only more succinctly:
Editing may be life, but editing ain't living.
*(which's?)
**(witches!?!)
I lately lost a preposition;
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair
And angrily I cried, "Perdition!
Up from out of under there."
Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor,
And yet I wondered, "What should he come
Up from out of under for?"
– Morris Bishop
Posted by: iain | Friday, 29 August 2008 at 05:59 AM