I'm sure many of us got the joke, it's just that we didn't laugh loudly
enough for you to hear :-)
On 15 November 2014 21:36, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/13/2014 9:46 PM, ChrisB wrote:
>
>> Oh my sainted aunt!
>>
>
> Mostly I just like the phrase If I have to pick, I'll pick my great aunt
> Etta.
>
> I had no idea my post would kick up such a firestorm. Not that I mind. ;-)
>
> But it got all serious! :-)
>
> It was supposed to be a little funny bit, a take-off on McLuhan's famous
> dictum.
>
> As to the grammar, Chris is quite correct:
>
> "And if the quote had been in inverted commas the tense could have been
> the present – as you point out. But since Moose wrote it as reported
> speech, i.e. without quotes, the tenses should have matched."
>
> As he didn't actually say what I tongue-in-cheek attributed to him, I
> choose to eschew quotation marks (Inverted commas, it appears, in Brit
> speak.)
>
> Had I used ironic quotations marks, everyone would have known it was a
> joke, which would take all the fun out of an obscure reference funny.
>
> That no one apparently got the joke, and the thread spun off into grammar,
> is a shame, as his thoughts on media are worth thinking about.
>
> Miss Quoting Moose
>
> --
> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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