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echo: fidonews
to: HENRI DERKSEN
from: BJRN FELTEN
date: 2018-06-09 08:11:00
subject: Keeping it private.

 DD>> tried it out. I scored a higher rate of correct answers than her.
 HD>                                                                   ^^^
 HD> Is that really correct?
 HD> You mean She in stead of Her !? ;-).

   I know what you mean. In Germanic languages it's clear that the above is
short for "than *she* did". In English they long time ago seem to have
abandoned that notion.

   We are gradually losing the proper form in Swedish as well. Only old people,
educated in the mid 20th century, still use the "old" proper form.



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