--- Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My Latin is more than rusty, but my angelitsche isn't....
>
> "We are like dwarves on giants' shoulders,
> so that we can see more and further than them.
>
>
> "so that we can see more and further than *they* [can see]", pls.
The subject is treated at some length by Fowler in "Modern English
Usage" under "than", who notes:
"But the prepositional use of 'than' is now so common colloquially (He
is older than me; they travelled much faster than us) that the bare
subjective pronoun in such a position strikes the reader as pedantic .
. ."
Can it be that Crockers is even more pedantic than me?
Oriens.
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