Creutzer comments on The rational way to name rivers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: arundelo 07 August 2014 04:06:03PM *  2 points [-]

It's a performance error; the predicate should be nominative.

English pronoun cases don't divide up the same way Esperanto cases do (e.g., prepositions take the object case), but note that many English speakers say, "It is me" rather than "It is I". (I don't know Emile's first language.)

Also, leaving off the accusative ending is such a pitfall for most beginners at Esperanto that people sometimes overcorrect anything matching the pattern "nominative verb nominative" to "nominative verb accusative".

Edit: Corrected "pronouns take" to "prepositions take".

Comment author: Creutzer 07 August 2014 07:04:44PM *  0 points [-]

Makes sense, thanks for providing the explanation I didn't think of!