Timeline for How to use "who" vs. "that"
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| May 30, 2013 at 3:14 | comment | added | siride | There's nothing depersonalizing about "that", any more than "that man" is depersonalizing. Someone made up a rule that "who" goes with people and "that" doesn't, which had no basis in the history of the language or its syntax, and now we have people like you trying to make commentary about a whole society based on the words used in relative clause. Get a grip! | |
| May 30, 2013 at 0:02 | comment | added | DoubtingDoubt | Oh, so we, the Dutch-speakers, have always lived in a depersonalised society. :P | |
| S May 29, 2013 at 20:52 | review | Late answers | |||
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| S May 29, 2013 at 20:52 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 29, 2013 at 20:37 | history | answered | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |