Alexander Koryagin to Anton Shepelev:

> It is a Grammar violation that have become generally accepted.

Has become.

> A dead person cannot write -- he wrote.

That is true, but when we speak about something that he wrote of
eternal value and that is part our cultural heritage, the Present
Simple is preferable. This is not a violation of grammar but an
observance of it. Pay heed to Goold Brown's magnum opus "The
grammar of English grammars" (which is also the granma of English
grammars):

> Deceased authors may be spoken of in the present tense, because
> they seem to live in their works; as, "Seneca reasons and
> moralizes well."--Murray. "Women talk better than men, from the
> superior shape of their tongues: an ancient writer speaks of
> their loquacity three thousand years ago."--Gardiner's Music of
> Nature, p. 27.

Alexander writes (!):

> Another example, "It's me" instead of "It is I".

It depends and dangles: it is me you are disagreeing with :-)

> AFAIR, you used to be the defender of strict Grammar rule
> observation

Yes, the defender of strict Grammar observation -- it is I!

> and the sworn enemy of informal speech. ;-)

Had I been that, I should not have enjoyed the Wordsworth book
of Irish Ghost Stories as did. I thought I'd bust a gut over the
informal language in the funniest of them. Highly recommended:

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/irish-ghost-stories-wordsworth-special-editions-w
ordsworth-special-editions_oscar-wilde_bram-stoker/1240277/

-- more than 1000 pages of fun and thrill. I have never been able
to locate all the stories online, but some of them are from Thomas
Crofton Crocker's "Fairy lenegends and traditions from the South of
Ireland": https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20121038/html.php  .

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