I worry that millenials, upon hearing the word 'git', think you're referring to version control for software development. As opposed to someone who is … well, a complete git.
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One of those times when you wonder if the writer thought of the title/sub title first and then wrote the article. Good one though
https://www.economist.com/news/books...osing-its-case
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Now I want to read it to see if I agree with you. As a linguist, I ignored it when Wyatt Earp first posted it on his FB page, other than to check that, from a very quick skim, it seemed to be making more or less the point I would make, namely that the decay of case endings in English, and the hopeless confusion of case forms amongst native speakers (e.g the jarring utterance even by most highly educated people of ghastly formulations like "send it to John and I") became inevitable once English embarked on its centuries long shift towards giving word order, rather than form, the main functional role in distinguishing the subject from the object of a verb.
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Originally posted by Evariste Euler Gauss View PostNow I want to read it to see if I agree with you. As a linguist, I ignored it when Wyatt Earp first posted it on his FB page, other than to check that, from a very quick skim, it seemed to be making more or less the point I would make, namely that the decay of case endings in English, and the hopeless confusion of case forms amongst native speakers (e.g the jarring utterance even by most highly educated people of ghastly formulations like "send it to John and I") became inevitable once English embarked on its centuries long shift towards giving word order, rather than form, the main functional role in distinguishing the subject from the object of a verb.
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Originally posted by gjt View PostEvery time I see "git" online, I have to double-check to ensure it's not my username that's been mentioned. I'm sure my parents knew when I was named what the unfortunate implications of some middle names would be.
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