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languages are supposed to change and evolve
that’s what they do
so don’t be an asscramp about “he and I”/”him and me” because you still know what the speaker means, don’t you, and you are STIFLING THE GROWTH
Exactly. It’s funny anyway. People started saying this like It’s me and no one cared expect for some prescriptivists. They started bashing everyone using object pronouns when subject pronouns “should” be used so that people got paranoid and hypercorrection took place, so people started saying things such as She bought it for her and I, which some people started complaining about as well. Now many people are just utterly confused. But it doesn’t even matter because no one should give a flying fuck if you say between you and me or between you and I. Everyone fucking understands you.
Posted on February 23, 2012 via Adeline and the Birdcage with 18 notes
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I shouldn’t be allowed to write stuff when I’m tired. I just noticed all the typos I made xD [this = things, expect =...
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theoceanandthesky said:
not to mention English is not everyone’s first language, people have dyslexia and other learning disabilities… correcting someone when you know damn well what they mean is just a shitty thing to do.
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