Many years ago,
I knew an old man (probably not as old as I am now) that would swear ‘God damn
I” every time he screwed up something.
I always thought
that sounded strange, buy at that time in my life I wasn’t particularly concerned
about anything that didn’t bring pleasure to me – or is it I…
Shakespeare’s
Ophelia cried ‘Woe is me,” but can we really set our grammar on Shakespeare’s
prows? Should it have been Woe is I or Woe am I?
Anyway, I
kind of like the sound of God damn I,
so that has been my go-to for years.
There are
rules of grammar that make sense, but rules are meant to be broken. To me there are three strands of language:
one is to transmit information or relate a story, one is to express emotion and
the other is art.
God damn I expresses emotion, so who is to say
it I am not correct?
I am Me, or
am I?
the Ol’Buzzard
