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4:55 pm
January 26, 2010


Manelle

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Just a suggestion to the writers….
Check your grammar more carefully. In the episode The Third Man, aired on 1/25/2010, Castle says to Beckett, "They will forget all about you and I". That should be "about you and me".

An author of Castle's reputation would never make a mistake like that!!

5:00 pm
January 26, 2010


GhostWriter

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He's done that one several times and it makes me cringe – but its a hideously common error.

I agree – after his little obsessive rants about the use of 'irony' and 'who vs. whom' it does rather seem out of character. Perhaps it's time for Kate to correct him? She clearly has had a first rate education too.

5:26 pm
January 26, 2010


Rvandsing (St Louis area)

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GhostWriter said:

He's done that one several times and it makes me cringe – but its a hideously common error.

I agree – after his little obsessive rants about the use of 'irony' and 'who vs. whom' it does rather seem out of character. Perhaps it's time for Kate to correct him? She clearly has had a first rate education too.


I, too, am surprised by this particular error…not so much about the writers, or even about Castle who is a writer, but about Nathan whose parents were teachers (and I believe he indicated at least one of them was an English teacher). 

Rvandsing — North side of 60 and proud of it — Cubs Fan forever

5:33 pm
January 26, 2010


GhostWriter

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quick, shoot me – i wrote "its a hideously common error". talk about boo boos. I should have written "it's a hideously common error" Not quite as horrible a mistake as your vs you're but bad never the less.

If even one of his parents were teachers, then he has to have had that particular drill driven into him. I can still hear my mother's "not I, dear, me!" speech.

5:36 pm
January 26, 2010


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I'm moving this to Castle Discussion because it has nothing to do with castletv.net

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7:51 pm
January 26, 2010


Tzalaran

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'you and i' is commonly used in poetry, verse, and lyrics. It is also commonly used in informal speech when wanting to put more emphasis on the other party.

i'd not consider this a huge grammatical error, but obviously i throw writing convention to the wind when writing. The story is more important than the syntax to me…

8:01 pm
February 22, 2010


carol

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That one bothers me too, but not as much as when they freauently use "got" when "have" would be better.

9:40 am
February 23, 2010


Sandy (aka newsjunkie)

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There are a lot of grammatical errors I've noticed. A big one being that they often use "that" when they should use "who." Such as when Castle was talking about Kyra and he said "She was the one that got away." Kyra is a person, so Castle should have said "She was the one who got away." If she was a fish he was trying to catch or a great deal he was trying to close, then "that" would have been correct. That's not the only time but it's the one that stands out most in my mind right now.

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