Friday, March 6, 2009

Good Grammar not among O's Favorite Things

So apparently you can have about $3 billion but not know when to say I vs. me. The evidence?

Oprah on her show today: "So Tyler (as in Tyler Perry) comes to my house to show Gayle and I his new film."

In a segment later in the show Oprah and friends talk about how life offers "teachable moments."

Any (really brave) teachers we can get in the audience?

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Outsmarting Rory

Watching a dvd of The Gilmore Girls. My they are brilliant. Speaking rapid fire and dropping in references to Krav Maga and Nag Hammadi.

You'd think that child prodigy Rory, educated at snotty Chilton preparatory school, accepted at Harvard, Princeton and Yale and studying at Yale by the time of this episode occurs, would know her pronoun placement.

Apparently the episode writers did not, because we get this:

Rory, speaking of paramour Logan: "He's so great. You've seen him. He's so beautiful. And really smart. Smarter than me, I swear."

We believe you, Rory.

Logan, perhaps you would have known to say "she's smarter than I am." (Though trust us, she's not).