Re: ``I see from whom it comes''

From: Ron Hardin (rhhardin_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 09/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:58:44 GMT

Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > Dan Rather is quoted
> >
> > "Until someone shows me definitive proof that they are not, I don't
> > see any reason to carry on a conversation with the professional rumor
> > mill," Rather said. "My colleagues and I at '60 Minutes' made great
> > efforts to authenticate these documents and to corroborate the story
> > as best we could. ... I think the public is smart enough to see from
> > whom some of this criticism is coming and draw judgments about what
> > the motivations are."
> >
> > Is there anybody that that sounds grammatical to? It's not even formal
> > register any longer.
> >
> > It's forced by fronting the ``from.''
>
> > On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
>
> At long last, Mr. Hardin, have you no ear??
>
> Mr. Rather is of the antiquated opinion (he's nearly 70) that one
> doesn't end a sentence with a preposition (normal people would say "to
> see who some of this criticism is coming from," but he's Authoritative
> and so has to use Authoritative Grammar), so he produces a perfectly
> grammatical, by-the-rules sentence, in formal register.
>
> Or do you think he should have said "to see from who some of this
> criticism is coming"?

What Rather lacks is the ear that says that it sounds so awful that
perhaps the preposition has to go at the end after all.

It doesn't even sound formal register, merely wrong.

The rules, after all, have to go by the sound; the sound is what has to be
accounted for. 

-- 
Ron Hardin
rhhardin@mindspring.com
On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

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