Avoiding the which hunt

[trickykitty]

vadania and channonyarrow and takhisis (and any other English pros I'm leaving off) will be proud of me.

I read up on the proper use of which and that. Of course, English still fails me and I'm sure I'll easily fall back into old, and often wrong, habits, but at least I'm making an active attempt to correct myself.

PS - Last week I read up on who versus whom. Watch out. I might actually start becoming a grammar pro. ;)

Comments

Don't forget me!

[grian-eun.livejournal.com]

What do you do with a B.A. in English?

Correct all your friends' spelling, of course ;)

Re: Don't forget me!

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

At least I take an active role in learning when something is pointed out to me. I think that gives me brownie points among the English crowd. I can cash those in when I die or something.

Re: Don't forget me!

[grian-eun.livejournal.com]

Most definitely. You can hang out in the big library in the sky with the rest of us, smoking hookah and chatting with Evelyn Waugh over whether his book characters were gay or not.

Re: Don't forget me!

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

I always picture a coffee bar with a bunch of beat poets.

Re: Don't forget me!

[grian-eun.livejournal.com]

That would work too. Somehow I think T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats would be in the coffee shop, being all emo about their unrequited loves and depression issues. But the postmodernists would totally be smoking hookah and ranting about their characters.

*has mental picture of a hookah-high Nicholson Baker arguing with Italo Calvino over some literary device*

That's the heaven I wanna be in.