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Wanderer

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Oddly enough, Ernie Wise's 'Play what I wrote' doesn't bother me....

And of course, the Glenda Jackson line in a play what he wrote, 'All men are fools and what makes them so is having beauty like what I have got'.....
 
CatmanV2

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Wanderer said:
Oddly enough, Ernie Wise's 'Play what I wrote' doesn't bother me....

And of course, the Glenda Jackson line in a play what he wrote, 'All men are fools and what makes them so is having beauty like what I have got'.....
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Of course that's done deliberately, and for comic effect.

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Wanderer

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CatmanV2 said:
<without watching>

"It's "with *whom* I live"! Not "Who I live with""

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I thought 'Whom' was the last remnant of the accusative case in English, which lost all its noun inflections after Middle English or even Old English, can't recall. 'With' implies instrumental case ie 'use of'. But that was a lifetime ago...

English lost it's noun inflections but bits remain, possessive case as in apostrophe 'S' and I think, genitive with 'he/him, she/her' etc.

Cases did my box in when I did my Russian, I still have the tables in my head.....
 
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Wanderer said:
I thought 'Whom' was the last remnant of the accusative case in English, which lost all its noun inflections after Middle English or even Old English, can't recall. 'With' implies instrumental case ie 'use of'. But that was a lifetime ago...

English lost it's noun inflections but bits remain, possessive case as in apostrophe 'S' and I think, genitive with 'he/him, she/her' etc.

Cases did my box in when I did my Russian, I still have the tables in my head.....
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:eek: as my kids would say ELI5
 
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