Those protests were popularized by grammarians who learned grammar thru a Latin ...

mc32 on Nov 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linguist claims that English Is a Scandinavian lan...

Those protests were popularized by grammarians who learned grammar thru a Latin lens, so, to them, being used to the Latin grammar, this construct in English looked incorrect. From a Germanic language context, though, it's perfectly normal.