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[Mark Mandel]

context *or* dialect

MAM

On Tue, Aug 2, 2022, 8:11 AM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ..."
>>
>> --
>> - Wilson
>> -----
>> 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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