【词汇大师】矫枉过正Ⅱ(1/2)

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“矫枉过正不仅仅是被挑剔或一个吹毛求疵的人或一个学究”
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本篇只听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。
主持人的话①   "Can you give us an example?"
主持人的话②  "But we're not hearing that in common, spoken American English."
主持人的话③  "What you're hearing is someone would say, let's say, 'He took Rosanne and I to the movies -- ”
        主持人的话④" -- where it should be 'he took Rosanne and me to the movies.' How did this happen? Why are people doing this?"
       
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Hypercorrection
Hypercorrection is not simply being fussy or a nitpicker or a pedant. The 'hyper' part, from Greek, means 'too much.' It means working so hard to avoid one potential problem that you end up falling into another one.
Sure. We're taught as children, and beginning language learners are told, you don't say 'me and you went to the movies.' It should be 'you and I.' And a lot of people, therefore, internalize the rule that 'you and I' is somehow more proper, and they end up using it in places where they shouldn't such as 'he gave it to you and I' when it should be 'he gave it to you and me.
It tends to come from areas where people are aware that there's something a little tricky in the language.