Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed1.swip.net!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news2 From: Michael Wojcik Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Class.forName().newInstance() vs new Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:21:22 -0400 Organization: Micro Focus Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <95ho4qFd7cU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: p1c438fc0ac72cf4e73392064ad0f1a9afe23122a094d57ca.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5337 lewbloch wrote: > On Jun 11, 12:50 pm, "John B. Matthews" wrote: >> In article , >> "John B. Matthews" wrote: >> >>> There's some >> There are some > > "There's some [plural] ..." is quite common in idiomatic American. True, which is an argument for avoiding it (or correcting it, as John did in his edit). Though it's not quite as grating as, say, the use of "would" to indicate the subjunctive mood. ("If I would have knowed there's some cupcakes, I would have totally ate them all.") I've pretty much given up on nominative/objective case of pronouns as a shibboleth ("between you and I") - I suspect more people in the US now ignore traditional pronoun case than attempt to apply it - but attentive writers do still try to watch agreement in number, I think. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University