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Author: Ian Zimmerman
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Historical note on double negation.
On 2020-12-24 16:19, Rick Moen wrote:

> > Another such an example is
> >    John and me went swimming.
> > Here 'and' serves as a preposition.

>
> I'm not sure where the location is, where 'and' fails to be a
> conjunction when used between two nouns in that fashion, but I'm
> curious what colour the sky is, there.


But if "and" is a conjunction in this sentence pattern, the nouns or
pronouns it joins together form the subject, and so they ought to be in
the nominative, i.e. "John and I". I understood that to be Hendrik's
point, even if he didn't express it very clearly (perhaps adding some
irony to the thread).

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Ian