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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 09/14/2006 : 09:00:50
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Originally posted by Randall
Not sure I buy your "cognate" argument. Nope, upon reflection I'm sure I don't. This much I do know: any English-speaking teacher or editor [perhaps excluding yourself], at least on this side of the Pond and I dare say on your own as well, would correct the flawed usage "he is taller than me." As, once again, would me.
It is definitely a 'rule' that is in wide circulation, but so are or were not splitting infinitives and not having a preposition at the end of a sentence, both artificially introduced by erroneous analogy with Latin. Since it is an exception to the general order of things, then its origins definitely play a significant part in this. The difference may come from its not really being a preposition (which I initially assumed it was); it seems a bit like a conjunction. |
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 09/22/2006 : 17:03:03
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by Randall
Not sure I buy your "cognate" argument. Nope, upon reflection I'm sure I don't. This much I do know: any English-speaking teacher or editor [perhaps excluding yourself], at least on this side of the Pond and I dare say on your own as well, would correct the flawed usage "he is taller than me." As, once again, would me.
It is definitely a 'rule' that is in wide circulation, but so are or were not splitting infinitives and not having a preposition at the end of a sentence, both artificially introduced by erroneous analogy with Latin. Since it is an exception to the general order of things, then its origins definitely play a significant part in this. The difference may come from its not really being a preposition (which I initially assumed it was); it seems a bit like a conjunction.
Not sure I know what you're talking about. [I got the first sentence entire; then you frickin lost me.] |
Edited by - randall on 09/22/2006 23:03:15 |
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Josh the cat
"ice wouldn't melt, you'd think ....."
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Posted - 09/22/2006 : 18:28:14
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by Randall
Not sure I buy your "cognate" argument. Nope, upon reflection I'm sure I don't. This much I do know: any English-speaking teacher or editor [perhaps excluding yourself], at least on this side of the Pond and I dare say on your own as well, would correct the flawed usage "he is taller than me." As, once again, would me.
It is definitely a 'rule' that is in wide circulation, but so are or were not splitting infinitives and not having a preposition at the end of a sentence, both artificially introduced by erroneous analogy with Latin. Since it is an exception to the general order of things, then its origins definitely play a significant part in this. The difference may come from its not really being a preposition (which I initially assumed it was); it seems a bit like a conjunction.
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Review Elections
