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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 d

by 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.