<div dir="auto">There was a very conscious effort to latin-ize English, with the view that it was superior. It's a big chunk of why English spelling is so screwed up. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 1:56\u202fAM Russell Standish <<a href="mailto:lists@hpcoders.com.au">lists@hpcoders.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 05:19:38PM -0700, Frank Wimberly wrote:<br>
> Very good, Stephen. More feelingful and poetic than my writing. What I wrote<br>
> is more factual and specific. I wish mine could have been a bit more<br>
> "romantic" but it was me. (Grammar requires "I" but...)<br>
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Agreement of the copula seems to me to be rule imposed on English by<br>
latin scholars. English is a Germanic language, and in German, one<br>
would say "es war mir", not "es war ich".<br>
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