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From: jimc@ima.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Poor English (here too)
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Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 23:37:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 19 23:37:01 1985
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Nf-From: ima!jimc    Mar 19 00:19:00 1985

You know, popular songs also come to mind.  I think of Stevie Nicks
and some male singer (whose name I can't remember) did a song
about two years ago called "Smiling Islands."  In that, they use
an expression which never fails to drive me crazy:

		" ... those kind of things."

Egad!  Also, let's turn to "The Worst that Could Happen", which was
a famous duet in the 1960's recorded by artists whose names I have
also fogotten but which I know was later recorded by the Fifth Dimension.
This song has the stanza:

	"But, baby, if he loves you more than me,
	 Maybe it's the best thing,
	 Maybe it's the best thing for you,
	 But it's the worst that could happen to me."

If we judge strictly by the usage, the protagonist would seem to 
be lamenting the failure of a homosexual relationship.  :-) 

Of course, the grammatical errors in popular music are
innumerable.  Maybe there is hope.  As if in recognition of the 
error described above, Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson sang 
this in "The Girl Is Mine" on Jackson's *Thriller*: 

	"I love you more than he
		(Take you anywhere)
	 But I love you endlessly
		(Loving we will share) ..."