Slate Star Codex Abridged - A Friend And I Remastered 85 Slate Star Codex Posts

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by unimpressive • 6 years ago

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flyingfences• 6 years ago

A friend and I

colejohnson66• 6 years ago

Languages evolve. If people say “me and X” over the formal “X and I,” then the more correct answer is “me and X.”

The only people I’ve seen quibble over this matter is English language teachers in school.

maxfan82• 6 years ago

The correct term for this is hypercorrect (this is more accurate description of this phenomenon than “less/more correct”). [1]

I’m trying not to quibble over language — just wanted to note that this is a well-documented phenomenon with a fancy name (I’m not an English teacher).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection

Edit: I clarified what I meant to say. Earlier it said “more correct” rather than “less/more” correct.

hombre_fatal• 6 years ago

Or we could just learn the most basic grammar rules in our language so we don't sound ignorant instead of just winging it at all times.

You only hear it from English teachers because they're the only ones who want to help you. When you don't know the difference between an adjective and past participle in your cover letter or article, you just look a little less competent. Nobody is going to respond to help you out.

happytoexplain• 6 years ago

Yes, language evolves, but this case is a bad example of that. To me, and other people I know, "X and me went to the movies" sounds exactly as wrong as "Me went to the movies." This is not an attack on people who are saying it "wrong", because I understand that it doesn't sound that wrong to everybody. But the fact that some people do hear it as I do is information that can serve a person's decisions. It's OK to not want to "sound dumb" in a specific context, even though it would be unreasonably mean to make that accusation. The opposite is also OK: To not bother adjusting for that audience - maybe you just don't care enough about the way they perceive language.

My point is, even though getting it "wrong" is very common, this grammatical rule is still far from dead in practice, and so simply offering the correction doesn't necessarily mean the person is being purely pedantic.

Of course this is all to do with "me" vs "I". I agree the strict order of the nouns is indeed almost dead in practice.

spanhandler2• 6 years ago

That one's still firmly in the territory of being a good rule to follow if you're trying to communicate clearly, without being distracting, and aren't aiming at some kind of particular, very colloquial register. Perhaps in 30-50 years that will have changed.

1f60c• 6 years ago

Yeah, "me and a friend" (I'm assuming that's what it said) is fine.

unimpressive5• 6 years ago

That's much better phrasing, thank you. :)

basch3• 6 years ago

I wish this was dated, as of when they did it. SSC is back up, so while its nice having an index to browse and some editorial "best of" contribution, I otherwise dont know why youd read the articles here and not the original site.

unimpressive5• 6 years ago

You mean this blog with default CSS? And barely any site navigation?

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation...

basch3• 6 years ago

Yes. It also has all the original conversation below the posts restored. The theme doesnt matter that much to me because I can control the display of a page client side, using something like Mercury or Dark Reader etc. In fact, I quite like the lack of a theme, leaving it entirely up to me. (Not that your theme in any way impedes that same freedom.)

ralphstodomingo• 6 years ago

I agree. I even doubt why it'd gone to the first page given the original blog is already up and functioning.

brianolson• 6 years ago

why the long domain name, shouldn't it be "SSCabridged" ?

unimpressive5• 6 years ago

We bought that too, haven't set it up yet.

dang2• 6 years ago

Blogs and blog posts don't count as Show HNs. Please see the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

unimpressive5• 6 years ago

Oh huh, I can totally see how that works but would not have predicted it/thought to check because it's not my blog. My apologies.

dang2• 6 years ago

No worries. The line is a bit arbitrary to draw, but we have to draw it somewhere or else every post would be a Show HN.

aarpmcgee• 6 years ago

I dig it. Nice typesetting!

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