On Wed, 7 Jul 2021 18:09:50 -0300 Raphael Saldanha <rfsalda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all! > > Me and Professor Eduardo Almeida (UFJF, Brazil) are creating an R > Shiny app for Spatial Econometric classes. <SNIP> I hope that you won't find this comment offensive, but I could not resist sending it to you, since I am rather fanatical (pedantic?) about correct English usage. The expression "Me and Professor Eduardo Almeida" is both (a) bad grammar and (b) bad form. (a) Instead of the pronoun "Me" (accusative or objective case) you should use "I" (nominative or subjective case), since this expression is the subject of the sentence. (b) It is "bad form" (it sounds vaguely self-promoting) to put a first person pronoun before the names of others to which it is linked. You should say "Professor Eduardo Almeida and I are creating ....". I realise that English is surely a second language for you, and your English is infinitely better than my non-existent Portuguese. Your English is actually quite good, probably better than that of many native English speakers. Nevertheless the expression that you use is not correct and you should strive to avoid such usage. Again let me express the hope that you won't take offence at this comment. cheers, Rolf Turner -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
