accusative conjoined subject pronoun on the NYT op-ed page

[Mark Mandel]

And the missing conjunction or missing article in "you, the Iraqi people
 and Army"? And "your own brink of self-destruction"? ISTM that these are
intentional parodies of Bush's usage.

m a m

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky
<zwicky at csli.stanford.edu>wrote:

> 9/24/08, Thomas L. Friedman's "Dear Iraqi Friends" column, p. A31:
>
> Don't misunderstand me.  Many Americans and me are relieved by the way
> you, the Iraqi people  and Army have pulled back from your own brink
> of self-destruction.
>
> [this is framed as a letter from George W. Bush to President Jalal
> Talabani of Iraq, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, and Speaker
> Mahmoud al-Mashadani.  there is, however, no other evidence that i can
> see pointing to any attempt to mimic a Bush "folksy" style.
>
> the accusative conjoined subject pronoun is still in the on-line
> version at the end of the day.
>
> arnold
>
>

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