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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*deprecation, not depreciation (but I guess depreciation still works there, too)