Subject: Re: the uses of literacy
From: Robert Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 11:12:04 EDT
'... Simply that the grammatical error in the quoted
text was not mine ...'
Nor, of course, mine.
'... For me, the sea breeze off the Aegean ... 'etc.,
is no grammatical error but rather that rhetorical device
known as 'suppressio subjuctivae', where the speaker
leaves unuttered a clearly implicit wish or preference.
As in: 'For you, no doubt, the dim, musty haunts of
the book worm - but for me, the clear, maritime air
of Leros.' There is an interesting parallel in the Greek
'men' followed by 'de'. (On the one hand, this - but on
the other, that.)
I'm a little disappointed but not greatly surprised
that you did not know that.
Scottie B.
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