From jgibson000@home.com Sun Feb 18 08:38:05 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id IAA136376 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 08:38:04 -0800 Received: from mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (mail2.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.77]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA22231 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 08:38:04 -0800 Received: from home.com ([24.8.224.116]) by mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010218163801.DCQU26655.mail2.rdc1.il.home.com@home.com> for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 08:38:01 -0800 Message-ID: <3A8FFADF.135A8072@home.com> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 10:39:59 -0600 From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-AtHome0407 (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: "bad" grammar References: <5.0.0.25.2.20010217174240.03ca1b80@pop.bol.ucla.edu> <3A8FF7CE.6542A430@temple.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Speaking of "bad grammar", isn't the assertion, noted by Dan Tompkins, and made by Amy Halloran, that she " > feel[s] very badly it's all gone so awry" a prime example of this? I have been taught to view the expression "to feel badly" as the equivalent of the assertion of possessing the less than requisite skills for engaging in laying one's hands upon something. Or am I mistaken in thinking that the distinction between "I feel bad" = I am full of remorse/regret, etc. and "I feel badly" no longer holds? Yours pedantically, Jeffrey Gibson -- Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.) 7423 N. Sheridan Road #2A Chicago, Illinois 60626 e-mail jgibson000@home.com .