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Unread 02-27-2011, 12:19 AM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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Although most English grammarians would like to pretend that English grammar descends directly from Latin grammar, with no influence from anything else, the fact remains that English is a grammatical bastard, and French emphatic pronouns are alive and well in it.

For example, the French C'est moi gives us It's me. Although the Latinate nominatives of It is I are not incorrect, they feel less natural because they are the result of trying to shove a medieval French-influenced genie back into its ancient Latin bottle. It did indeed fit there once, but now it doesn't want to go back without a fight.

I suspect that something analogous is going on with He is fatter than me vs. He is fatter than I.

I say both usages are correct. But no one listens to me, anyway.
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