By Robert H.
In a post entitled Carney Delenda Est, the normally excellent political reporter David Weigal has made maybe the gravest mistake of his career. He has forgotten that the gerundive in a passive peraphrastic has to agree with the noun it modifies in case, number, and gender, and so made a hash of his title. Carney is a man; it should be Carney Delendus Est.
I am not saying this one mistake invalidates a years-long career in journalism, only that it should.
If you're going to be a pedant, which is just fine, you should fix this sentence in your previous post: "Tax beer and people start drinking wine, tax imports and they buy local, tax gasoline and people by hybrids."
ReplyDeleteI am only pedantic in Latin. Correcting other people's ancient grammatical errors is the one small pleasure a man can wrest from a classics degree.
ReplyDeleteAs for correcting errors on the blog, I try not to do it too much out of fear that it will breed bad habits and lax proof reading before I post. Feel free to point out and/or jeer them, though. That would breed good habits.