Comments on: Steve Martin: a man for all reasons http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/03/steve-martin-a-man-for-all-reasons/ Musing & misadventures of a writer, comedian, and local treasure Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:17:00 -0500 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Doberspirit http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/03/steve-martin-a-man-for-all-reasons/#comment-5948 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:37:16 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4258#comment-5948 Dear Mr. Marshall:

I was looking forward to reading your blog entry; however, you lost me at “The film was an early favorite and bonding moment for my father and I“….

Don’t fret; your content is interesting. Many educated folks erroneously use the first-person pronoun “I” in the objective sense, when they ought to use “me.” To illustrate why the use of “I” in your sentence is grammatically unsound, try removing the words “and bonding moment…my father and” from the sentence. You’re left with “The film was an early favorite for me.” Having eliminated your father as part of the compound object in this sentence, it would not make sense to write, “The film was an early favorite for I.”

To cite the formal rule, the pronoun “I” is used only as the subject of a sentence, whereas “me” is always used as an object (i.e., a direct or indirect object, object of a preposition, etc.).

I’m really not trying to be a grammar “Nazi.” I’m just dedicated to preserving the language. Otherwise, nice article!

Kind regards,

Doberspirit

]]> By: Kevin Marshall http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/03/steve-martin-a-man-for-all-reasons/#comment-5947 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:08:02 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4258#comment-5947 Jango - You’re right. The rest of America must have simply imagined seeing all the movies he was in, attending the plays he wrote, and buying the books he authored in the meantime.

]]> By: Jango Davis http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/03/steve-martin-a-man-for-all-reasons/#comment-5946 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:06:20 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4258#comment-5946 Martin stoppeed being funny and relevant about 1983.

]]> By: Kevin Marshall http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/03/steve-martin-a-man-for-all-reasons/#comment-5945 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:26:39 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4258#comment-5945 Hal – hopefully not. It’s made pretty clear in the marketing that it’s “A Conversation with Steve Martin” rather than a performance. It also has a different moderator & people handling it.

]]> By: Hal Jordan http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/03/steve-martin-a-man-for-all-reasons/#comment-5944 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:17:51 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4258#comment-5944 Is this going to be a debacle like when Martin was scheduled to talk about art at the 92nd St Y in NYC, and instead, was told during the intermission to “be more funny”?

]]> By: Kevin Marshall http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/03/steve-martin-a-man-for-all-reasons/#comment-5943 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:37:54 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4258#comment-5943 Yes! It also has my favorite movie speech of all time, spoken by Lucky Day (Steve Martin himself):

“In a way, all of us has an El Guapo to face. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous man who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be the actual El Guapo.”

]]> By: justagirl http://www.kevinmarshallonline.com/blog/2011/03/03/steve-martin-a-man-for-all-reasons/#comment-5942 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:29:16 +0000 http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/?p=4258#comment-5942 The Three Amigos gave the world the best insult ever “you son of a motherless goat!”
:-)

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