Date:  Thu, 6 Apr 1995 12:18:58 -0500

From:  "Bethany Dumas, UTK" <DUMASB[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTKVX.BITNET>

Subject: Re: "the royal I" ???????????



I realize that my J.D. degree disqualifies me for a discussion of

the extent to which lawyers are full of you-know-what; nonetheless, I

want to comment on Bob Wachal's comment on Jack Ford, whose

comment I did NOT hear. I don't know the context in which Fod

apparently included an underling's actions in the word "I," but

the usage seems unexceptionable to me. Lawyers, like some

other people -- i.e., corporate executives -- are responsible often

both for acts they commit and also acts that they have office staff

commit. I can even imagine saying "I did thus-and-so" when I actually

had a research assistant do part of thus-and-so. Or am I missing the

point, Bob?



Bethany Dumas