Seeing a lot of (technically grammatically incorrect!) phrasings like "between you and I", "for Sam and I" lately.

One way to interpret: this is yet another way English-language culture is forgetting that it ever had anything to do with Latin.

Same idea as

Seeing a lot of (technically grammatically incorrect!) phrasings like "between you and I", "for Sam and I" lately.

One way to interpret: this is yet another way English-language culture is forgetting that it ever had anything to do with Latin.

Same idea as https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1479817912106074119

English is a mixed-up blender of a language (both in vocabulary *and* grammar) that changes as speakers use it vs. top-down control (see: French). This is a usage trend along with:

• depreciation of the subjunctive mood, “if I were…”
• depreciation of whom, “whom am I giving this to?”

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• the verb “to be” taking an object, “These are they,” “This is he,” “That’s we,” etc.

Pedantic grammarians will grit their teeth and cry, “no!”, surely as they did when English lost thee and thou. But if I was them, who I still wish well, I’d try to accept that English is us all.

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Addendum: pedantic English grammarians crying and pounding the tables with their fists rn, “Noooo! You’re supposed to say, ‘If I WERE THEY, WHOM I still wish well, I’d try to accept that English is WE all!’”