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Re: <<'e'>> DIpvaD tammey je

Mark J. Reed ([email protected])

• From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: <<'e'>> DIpvaD tammey je
• Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:03:32 -0500
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:49:36PM -0600, Dar'Qang wrote:

> Ok, thanks.  I didn't see that point at all.  "I am he" sounds normal,
> and "I am him" sounds wrong to my ear, but I think I know what you are
> saying.

Well, both of them are somewhat marked.  The idiomatic version would be
something more along the lines of "That's me"; "I am he/him" is only
used in dramatic (perhaps melodramatic) or formal (e.g. legal)
circumstances.  Note how "That's I" (or "That is I") sounds odd - at
least, stuffy and formal - to most native English-speakers despite being
technically correct according to the (artificial, Latin-based)
prescriptivist rules of English grammar.  Ditto for "It's her!" vs. the
supposedly correct "It's she!", etc.

-Mark

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