XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.language.latin
On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 19:24:51 +0000, Mike Spencer wrote:
Single data point: Quote from J.D. Vance:
I think that, frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if me and Trump won
just the normal gay guy vote...
I recall in elementary school in the early 50s, kids saying stuff
like, "Me an' him was over to the store..." and being corrected to
say, "He and I..." That pedagogical item seems to have propagated
into usages like "It was a surprise to he and I..." where the pedagogy
was internalized as an incantation rather than an as a grammatical
concept.
But Vance is a Yale law grad, might be supposed to be smarter (or at
least better educated) than that.
Huh.
i recently learned that Barry Obama grew up in a rich family
---- his friends, his White Girlfriend in College... were all White
but (come Big Election), he and Kamala try to sound Black
Hillary Clinton is suddenly a big Yankees and Mets fan
Bill Clinton sounds Sothern and folksy
Reagan suddenly emphasizes his Irish roots
J.D. Vance can't do any of the above... so he
tries to sound Down-to-Earth and Folksy by .........
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