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.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 1:56 AM Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > 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". > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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