Is Obama an object lesson in bad grammar? - The Grammarphobia Blog

The Grammarphobia Blog: Grammar, Usage, Etymology, and More: Is Obama an object lesson in bad grammar?: ”
WHEN President Obama speaks before Congress and the nation tonight, he will be facing some of his toughest critics.

Grammar junkies.

Since his election, the president has been roundly criticized by bloggers for using ‘I’ instead of ‘me’ in phrases like ‘a very personal decision for Michelle and I’ or ‘the main disagreement with John and I’ or ‘graciously invited Michelle and I.’

The rule here, according to conventional wisdom, is that we use ‘I’ as a subject and ‘me’ as an object, whether the pronoun appears by itself or in a twosome. Thus every ‘I’ in those quotes ought to be a ‘me.’

So should the president go stand in a corner of the Oval Office (if he can find one) and contemplate the error of his ways? Not so fast….
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Making Words Disappear - The Greatest Possible Merit of Style

Quotable: Words, thought, and style - Notebook - Writing, Clear and Simple: “The greatest possible merit of style is, of course, to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne“

Pakistani Novelists & Writers Winning International Recognition as Nation Crumbles

As their country descends into chaos, Pakistani writers are winning acclaim | The Guardian: “Pakistani novelists writing in English - long overshadowed by literary giants from neighbouring India - are now winning attention and acclaim as their country sinks into violence and chaos.

Tales of religious extremism, class divides, dictators, war and love have come from writers who grew up largely in Pakistan and now move easily between London, Karachi, New York and Lahore. Since the publication of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist two years ago, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a new wave of Pakistani fiction is earning critical acclaim at home and around the world.

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