re: #30 dangerman

“than ‘I’”, ya dolt

i maintain that “than” takes the objective (“accusative”) case, not the subject (“nomnative”) case

consider this: grammarians maintain that you should use the subject case with a relative clause because it is an abbreviation of e.g., “she is a programmer like i am”. but this will lead you into saying things such as “she is a programmer like I”

therefore, rather than mount an argument based on logic, that the pronoun should be in the subject case because it is abbreviation of a relative clause, just face the fact that in normal, correct english speech such relatives take the object case

if you insist that normal speech needs to be “corrected” by logical arguments, you can try convincing the french and the russians that they shouldnt use double negatives