Day Camp: Roll Call!

that part is painfully clear, bru. Personally, I love the double entendre and effed-up syntax you used. Cf. Mike Skinner, Dizzee Rascall, Lady Sov, or any other good, British, emcee who knows her way around a lyric.

9:06 AM

Matthew K. said...

I've always wanted to do this.

Michael, it's Rascal, not "Rascall" Also, wouldn't it be their way and not her way, considering that neither Mike Skinner nor Dizzee are females. Iunno, maybe the MLA updated again and only the CAL english elite are aware.

5:53 PM

Dr. Love said...

I remember the chant. Who thinks that Bruin's chant should make it on the day camp lawn? Anyone?

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8:26 AM

Michael K. said...

Well, yeah - wrong on the two l's. Sorry to Dizzee and you. However, my grammar stands, and now that you've called me out I'm just going to have to bitch slap you. Sorry.

In this sentence:

Cf. Mike Skinner, Dizzee Rascall [sic], Lady Sov, or any other good, British, emcee who knows her way around a lyric

her, his, his/her, or her/his would be correct. Their, however, would not be correct. Why? Number agreement. See: the pronoun refers to "any other british emcee," not Skinner, Rascal, or Sov. The pronoun is a spot-marker, taking the place of - e.g. - Kano. If I wrote Kano - ignoring for one second that the pronoun becomes grammatically unnecessary - I would use "his" not "their," because the number is singular, not plural. Likewise here: the commas separate the clauses of Skinner, Rascal, Lady Sov, and the other unnamed emcee, grammatically alienating the three prior ("them") from the emcee; ergo, alienating "them" from the pronoun.

Now: I chose "her" because "his," traditionally, has been a bit dominant - gotta' give the feminine a chance, right? - and I find his/her or her/his aesthetically displeasing.

2:58 PM

Dr. Love said...