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[Mark Mandel]

Seen this occasionally. An extension of the animate-inanimate distinction
between "who" and "that".

Of course "that" can be used with animate referents -- "the man that called
yesterday" -- but standard grammar calls for "that" or "which" as relative
pronoun for inanimates, and "*which's" is awkward to pronounce and is not
used in any context of dialect AFAIK, unlike "that's" ("That's right").

MAM

On Mon, Aug 1, 2022, 9:15 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "... an art exhibition _that's_ theme was violence ..."
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> - Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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