Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...
| From: | David Peterson <digitalscream@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 6:54 |
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In a message dated 12/6/01 8:16:41 PM, yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:
<< And
someone else mentioned (I seem to recall) the colloquial usage in English
of "it's me" or "that's him" vs. the prescriptivist "it is I" and "that is
he." Does anyone know the origins of those colloquial forms? >>
If it's not recent, it just might've come over as a direct translation
from French when it was fashionable to speak French (1700's to 1920's, in
America--about).
-David
"Zi hiwejnat zodZaraDatsi pat Zi mirejsat dZaCajani sUlo."
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near."
--Jim Morrison
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