On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 08:53:01PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Ian Zimmerman (i...@very.loosely.org): > > > But if "and" is a conjunction in this sentence pattern, the nouns or > > pronouns it joins together form the subject, and so they ought to be in > > the nominative, i.e. "John and I". > > Indeed. > > I vaguely recall Hendrik suggesting that 'and' functioning as a > proposition makes 'John and me' a suitable subject for the sentence, > i.e., in the nominative case, which I thought a startling notion both > for the idea of 'and' being anything but a conjunction and for the > conclusion drawn. I'd have to check the archive to see if I read that > entirely right -- but definitely the claim of 'and' being a preposition > was part of it.
You read it right. But it isn't so in modern educated English. Just in remote ancestors of english, And in some vestigial slang phrases. -- hendrik > > Not that this is worth dwelling on, unless good for points of benevolent > entertainment. > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
