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Than we.

• Areading314 7y ago
  do.
• grammarfuhrer 7y ago
  Thank you for your contribution.
  • jammygit 7y ago
    I absolutely love that s/he created the account just to post this
• zik 7y ago
  Common usage indicates that "than us" is just fine. Remember English grammar doesn't come from a grammar book - grammar books are merely imperfect attempts to describe common English usage.
  • sukilot 7y ago
    Common usage comes from users. Us have every right to apply our pressure on the common usage.
  • Areading314 7y ago
    Imagine writing this in a code review
    • edoceo 7y ago
      English is far from code. And if it was, it's like a hybrid PHP+JS
    • atq2119 7y ago
      Why not? Programming language grammar is fixed by the compiler, but idioms and stylistic preferences change over time based on usage as well.
  • myrion 7y ago
    At this point, to this non-native speaker, "than we" sounds bizarrely antiquated.
  • yesenadam 7y ago
    More than that, "Than We" sounds archaic to me, 19th C at best, i.e. wrong. Who talks like that?
    • pinkfoot 7y ago
      Elisabeth II
    • chownie 7y ago
      Carl Sagan did, I recall a quote of his talking about the composition of the brain and he says something along the lines of "to consider that we live in a universe which permits the construction of biological machines as intricate and as subtle as we"
  • chibg10 7y ago
    Ohohoho that depends very much on who you're talking to about the English language. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription EDIT: These downvotes confuse me. It is a matter of fact that there exists an entire non-trivial linguistic school of thought which holds a belief completely incompatible with what GP just presented as more or less indisputable. GP's authoritative tone is unjustified, regardless of which camp you happen to agree with.