i'm starting a new thread instead of just throwing it in the pc thread because i'm sure i'll have more stuff like this in the future. my instincts are to hate all of this change for change sake crap. but logically, mcwhorter is obviously right, the taboos of my youth were no more logical than the taboos of today. and those of today no stupider than those coming tomorrow.
"i did" does seem to me like a natural construction to the broken lamp question though. not sure if he's saying that i without a verb is unnatural or that any use of i is unnatural.
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/563612/?__twitter_impression=true