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Re:This map is not upside down by dingaling on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:02PM (#45294972)
> Metaphors We Live By

Unfortunately the editor didn't seem to read "Grammar By Which We Live" before entitling that book.

Re:This map is not upside down by jaennaet on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:24PM (#45295173)
This is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put
Re:This map is not upside down by ash_091 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:20PM (#45295138)
I spent a solid ten minutes researching this and couldn't find any suggestion that there's any problem with the title.

Could you explain how it's ungrammatical?

Re:This map is not upside down by cgh on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:31PM (#45295255)
There’s an outdated rule in English that states you shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition. It dates back to a time when writers applied Latin’s grammatical rules to English. It’s mostly ignored now.
Re:This map is not upside down by tomsmeding on Thursday September 18, 2025 @06:26PM (#45295783)
But... it's a title, not a sentence. Many book titles are even a single word, which is even less a sentence. Why would a grammatical convention for sentences apply to book titles?
Re:This map is not upside down by cgh on Thursday September 18, 2025 @08:38PM (#45296688)
Heck if I know. All I know is I am a lot more worked up about the misuse of “less” when the correct word is “fewer”.
Re:This map is not upside down by robocat on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:25PM (#45296964)
Whom would care fewer?
Re:This map is not upside down by jamiek88 on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:09AM (#45298759)
Which itself was simply the preference of a spinster who wrote a grammar book.

English has no rules like that, only preferences.

Re:This map is not upside down by marcusb on Thursday September 18, 2025 @06:16PM (#45295688)
They did, they just understood they were editing English not Latin.