On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 01:12:54AM -0400, Mark Filipak wrote:
> On 2014/5/11 11:08 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> -snip-
> > More worrying are the strange ammendments that American English is
> > imposing (or has imposed) on us people who speak the proper English!
> 
> I'm sorry, but as an American I have to come out of lurk mode for this...
> 
> What you tried to write, Chris, refers to those "who speak" in the
> nominative case. The phrase at the end of your sentence should therefore
> begin "we", not "us". May I suggest "we who speak proper English!"
> instead of "us people who speak the proper English!"

Maybe all that is missing is a comma?

  ".. imposing (or has imposed) on us, people who speak the proper
  English!"

;)

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