Re: OT: sorta OT: cases: please help...

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:10:31 -0800, Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote:

>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?
This question is a difficult one, considering the actual diversity of
pronominal forms and their uses in the dialects of England. I kinda
remember a review of BE dialectology quoting such an example:

I found it. Him's that.

And another quote, also from a forgotten source but with some relation to
this discussion:

...I've never seen or said or been anything interesting.

Is this standard?


Basilius