tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 30 04:48:21 2004
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language change or inappropriate description?
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: language change or inappropriate description?
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:47:32 EST
In a message dated 2004-03-30 12:06:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
> 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.
at the risk of being off-topic: i have been under the impression that "it is
i" used to be the normal colloquial way to say this phrase, and it has
changed in recent centuries (if not mere decades) to the current colloquial form
"it's me." latin messed up english grammar pretty badly, but i don't think it
can take all the blame for this one.
lay'tel SIvten
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