[Ads-l] "goes I"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

As Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”:
‘There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/06/grace/

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Reminiscent, of course, of people who say, "Till death do they part."
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> Except they spell it { 'Til}.
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> JL
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> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Robin Hamilton
> <robin.hamilton3 at virginmedia.com> wrote:
>> “Very highly educated CNN interviewee, recalling that he and his family had recently been at the spot of the alligator attack in Orlando: "It all kind of rang home: 'But for the grace of God goes I.'
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>> Not only is it ungrammatical - it don't even make no sense!
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>> JL”
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>> Truncation of “(There) [sic] but for the grace of God goes I”.
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>> So grammatical, if you allow for truncation and inversion.
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>> 4430 ghits for the “goes I” version;  1220 ghits for “goes me”.
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>> Though why, “There I go” should be grammatical, as well as “There goes I” ...
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>> As Henry II said, ‘Who is it that shall rid me of this troublesome pronoun case ending?’
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>> Robin Hamilton
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