On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 05:19:38PM -0700, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> Very good, Stephen. More feelingful and poetic than my writing. What I wrote
> is more factual and specific. I wish mine could have been a bit more
> "romantic" but it was me. (Grammar requires "I" but...)
Agreement of the copula seems to me to be rule imposed on English by
latin scholars. English is a Germanic language, and in German, one
would say "es war mir", not "es war ich".
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