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Fair enough. Legolas Send a noteboard - 23/05/2010 01:58:58 PM
I imagine many languages will have similar examples of prescriptivists pushing something like that and creating chaos and confusion instead of the "improved" language use they were aiming for. The whole hen vs. hun business in Dutch comes to mind. Or our spelling reforms. *shudders*
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Inspired by Camilla's post: quit saying "between you and I" already - 20/05/2010 04:16:29 PM 1105 Views
It isn't something I can recall really noticing - 20/05/2010 04:22:42 PM 301 Views
You don't live in the United States of America. - 20/05/2010 04:31:23 PM 273 Views
Well yes but me was just feeling smug it doesn't seem as common over here - 20/05/2010 05:12:41 PM 271 Views
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I think this is one of those things people do because they think it makes them sound smart. - 20/05/2010 04:33:38 PM 315 Views
When in actuality it exposese their stupidity and ignorance. *NM* - 20/05/2010 04:36:08 PM 152 Views
Like saying "octopi". <Shivers> *NM* - 20/05/2010 11:56:27 PM 254 Views
Octopodes makes them sounds like aliens - 21/05/2010 12:25:14 AM 396 Views
Actually nothing like that - 21/05/2010 04:49:43 PM 249 Views
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I don't know how me feels about this. - 20/05/2010 04:49:03 PM 304 Views
This makes me want cookies. *NM* - 20/05/2010 04:50:34 PM 255 Views
I was thinking about him when I wrote it. - 20/05/2010 04:55:04 PM 286 Views
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Dude, I could care less *NM* - 20/05/2010 05:30:37 PM 236 Views
*cough* move along... - 20/05/2010 07:16:18 PM 288 Views
That annoys me, too - 20/05/2010 05:34:30 PM 430 Views
I think you're confusing it with phrase-final prepositions. *NM* - 20/05/2010 11:57:30 PM 252 Views
No - 21/05/2010 12:00:02 AM 248 Views
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Re: Oh right, that two (pro)nouns linked by "and" have to be the same case. - 21/05/2010 12:06:51 AM 498 Views
Er, no... - 21/05/2010 12:19:31 AM 242 Views
Re: Er, no... - 21/05/2010 12:22:32 AM 267 Views
It doesn't. The reason for that is exactly as Tom says: idiotic teachers. *NM* - 21/05/2010 12:28:12 AM 239 Views
But that is what I said when you contradicted me! *NM* - 21/05/2010 12:38:11 AM 244 Views
OK, I'm officially lost. - 21/05/2010 12:44:28 AM 288 Views
Re: OK, I'm officially lost. - 21/05/2010 12:49:59 AM 473 Views
Can you start right from the beginning? - 21/05/2010 12:52:08 AM 262 Views
Re: Can you start right from the beginning? - 21/05/2010 12:55:34 AM 273 Views
Please let me know when you sort this out. - 21/05/2010 04:26:50 AM 232 Views
Sorted - 22/05/2010 03:06:53 AM 472 Views
Ah, I think I've found the problem - 21/05/2010 11:50:59 AM 309 Views
Re: Inspired by Camilla's post: quit saying "between you and I" already - 20/05/2010 07:28:16 PM 365 Views
Look at Camilla's post directly below. - 20/05/2010 07:49:03 PM 297 Views
Well, the same problem appears in Swedish to some extent. - 20/05/2010 07:28:32 PM 506 Views
It doesn't annoy me, but I do fine myself silently correcting it when I hear it. - 20/05/2010 07:44:49 PM 299 Views
Along these lines - 20/05/2010 08:52:33 PM 463 Views
Well, shucks, Tom, we just ain't no good at that there grammer stuff. - 20/05/2010 07:49:18 PM 282 Views
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hollah that, brutha. *NM* - 20/05/2010 08:41:03 PM 239 Views
You mean grammir. *NM* - 20/05/2010 09:41:55 PM 277 Views
Not limited to the US of A. - 20/05/2010 08:26:30 PM 459 Views
If you're going to start down that path... - 20/05/2010 10:12:24 PM 278 Views
Personally - 20/05/2010 11:30:54 PM 226 Views
<Winces at your use of the word "ungrammatical"> *NM* - 21/05/2010 12:09:29 AM 265 Views
I take it the wincing is at the concept, and not at the word itself... - 21/05/2010 12:32:43 AM 467 Views
It's the misappropriation of linguistic terminology to an improper use. - 21/05/2010 12:44:54 AM 525 Views
I note you haven't replied to the main thread yet... - 21/05/2010 01:12:05 AM 374 Views
Re: I note you haven't replied to the main thread yet... - 23/05/2010 01:36:10 PM 452 Views
Fair enough. - 23/05/2010 01:58:58 PM 249 Views
Well of course that's wrong. It ought to be "The man whom you said that was coming." *NM* - 21/05/2010 07:03:37 AM 116 Views
OK, I know you're kidding around, but I can't tell if you know it isn't even prescriptively correct. - 21/05/2010 10:38:51 AM 258 Views
<chant> - 21/05/2010 11:52:17 AM 245 Views
I can't draw you a syntax tree or what have you to prove that it's wrong, no, but I know it is. - 22/05/2010 02:56:52 AM 232 Views
No trees necessary – this is lecture is 100% ecologically friendly. - 22/05/2010 10:04:34 AM 429 Views
Clever clever. Explains why Greek changes the case in its indirect statements so much. *NM* - 22/05/2010 09:47:26 PM 120 Views
Example please? *NM* - 22/05/2010 10:34:05 PM 252 Views
Yeah, I worded that awkwardly. - 23/05/2010 02:30:49 AM 260 Views
Ah, I see that I misread your subject line. - 23/05/2010 01:17:28 PM 462 Views
Actually, that would be a direct object - 21/05/2010 01:11:42 AM 251 Views
*blinks* Now I'm confused. - 21/05/2010 01:21:51 AM 237 Views
No it isn't...in that case it would be "me", and not "a cookie", that is wanted. - 21/05/2010 04:28:55 AM 254 Views
Well... - 21/05/2010 04:33:27 AM 438 Views
"I want me a cookie" is not proper English. - 21/05/2010 04:38:20 AM 441 Views
I know that - 21/05/2010 05:31:52 AM 365 Views
See, this is an area where your dialect argument would make sense. - 21/05/2010 11:53:17 AM 358 Views
But that doesn't actually make any sense in Latin. - 22/05/2010 03:03:28 AM 254 Views
I know it's dative in Latin - 22/05/2010 03:14:48 AM 445 Views
Well, yes. But prepositions are how we decline our pronouns in English. - 22/05/2010 04:35:42 AM 226 Views
And you would be wrong in that. - 22/05/2010 02:27:16 PM 252 Views
Iċ am not sure what þū said me is relevant these days... - 22/05/2010 09:57:41 PM 229 Views
You still just aren't getting this. - 23/05/2010 12:52:31 AM 233 Views
I accept it. But not in the circumstances when the prepositional phrase "to/for me" is used. *NM* - 23/05/2010 02:27:30 AM 121 Views
Technically, most prepositions in English take the dative. - 23/05/2010 02:31:06 AM 9394 Views
Huh. That makes sense. *NM* - 23/05/2010 02:32:57 AM 112 Views
You're confusing me almost as much as Larry. - 22/05/2010 11:15:43 AM 429 Views
That was atrocious Latin. - 22/05/2010 02:20:35 PM 462 Views
When asked who told him that killing was wrong, Johnny Five said "I told me." - 21/05/2010 09:52:15 PM 258 Views
Yes, yes I am. *NM* - 21/05/2010 10:14:16 PM 116 Views
C'est moi. - 21/05/2010 04:34:41 AM 449 Views
One additional thought. - 22/05/2010 02:14:15 AM 382 Views
Let me clarify. - 22/05/2010 11:32:25 AM 254 Views
Please don;t misunderstand what I posted as beng preachy. - 23/05/2010 11:12:43 PM 239 Views
in my elementary school grammar classes... - 21/05/2010 04:44:50 AM 290 Views
I'm unaware of any exceptions. It's a very good rule. *NM* - 21/05/2010 07:04:23 AM 112 Views
That is what I was taught... - 21/05/2010 02:28:40 PM 539 Views
Same. - 21/05/2010 09:54:10 PM 250 Views
I was taught the same. *NM* - 24/05/2010 02:24:41 PM 277 Views
Seriously dudes? 70 posts about fricking grammar?! - 21/05/2010 06:46:58 PM 272 Views
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You could make it about Russian grammar - 21/05/2010 07:05:35 PM 371 Views
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True - 21/05/2010 08:45:54 PM 244 Views
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I guess I did - 21/05/2010 09:25:53 PM 508 Views
Those all sound boring. - 21/05/2010 10:03:25 PM 407 Views
Not if they are approached from a cultural vantage point - 21/05/2010 10:28:02 PM 431 Views
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