XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.english.usage   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/8/31 8:35:48, Graeme Wall wrote:   
   > On 29/08/2025 18:14, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >> (As another has worked out, he's my brother.   
   >   
   > Is he heavy?   
   >   
      
   (-:   
      
   Actually he's lighter than I - he exercises more (not exercise as such,   
   just walks or cycles more than I do) and eats more healthily - despite   
   being taller than me by a small amount.   
      
   (Given the distribution, I must comment on my deliberations! I thought   
   about whether to put "me" or "I" towards the end there; "I" would be   
   more correct by old-fashioned grammar, but I consciously put "me" as I   
   felt "I" would be stilted. But then I realised I'd put "I" earlier in   
   the paragraph, without thinking.)   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   ... unlike other legal systems the common law is permissive. We can do   
   what we like, unless it is specifically prohibited by law. We  are not   
   as rule-bound and codified as other legal systems.   
   - Helena Kennedy QC (Radio Times 14-20 July 2012).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)