Laurence Reeves wrote: >Robert Newson wrote: > > > >> She is nicer than me and you. >> >>is wrong, it should be: >> >> She is nicer than you and I. >>or >> She is nicer than I and you. >> >> >> >> >> >'Fraid not. Replace "nicer" with "heavier" and it becomes obvious that >in the above you almost certainly should have said "or" not "and", and >the verb is then "is". I'm trying quite hard to think what it might >mean, should one person be nicer than a pair of other people? > >P.S. I've just found out that I've probably "got Asperger's", which is >nice, because: > >a) I can say the first comment above. >b) I can use the Oxford comma (even though I went to the other one), and >can get away with it. >b) I can have the last word. >c) I can stop putting the toilet seat down. >d) I can have two B's (which I happen to prefer with the apostrophe (on >subject! even if not on list), even though current usage dictates(sic) >otherwise) and not get so worried about worrying about it (or nested >parentheses, or dissimilar capitalisation, or these multiple or's, which >might have worked as "ORs", but would've been really uncomfortable as >"ors", in the same way that the "B's" couldn't have been "bs", but could >have been "b's" or "Bs" (or "bees"?)) anymore (where, by the time you >got to that "anymore", I willing to bet that that word threw you, as >you'd entirely lost the thread of the sentence by then) (and I used >that "that that" without qualms) (and now I'm getting silly) (now?). >(Try saying all that without taking a breath). > >PPS. Tony still hasn't told me whether he'd like to have fewer or less >computable numbers than points in a (mathematical) line. > >PEPS. Infinity. I considered introducing infinity in Minerva, but I >wouldn't have been happy with just the one. > > >
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