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I normally loathe nouns that have to be conjugated, but there are occasions when I wish devoutly that English still had a way of distinguishing between the pronoun that's the subject of the sentence and the pronoun that's the object of the sentence.
"He" and "him" are too confusing. Using names over and over is too clunky. Using things like "the taller man/the shorter man/the emerald-eyed Gryffindor" etc. is grounds for execution.
If the English language occasionally lacks adequate vocabulary, how on earth do writers using other, less Frankenstein's-monster-like/overly-endowed-with-stolen-words languages manage?
"He" and "him" are too confusing. Using names over and over is too clunky. Using things like "the taller man/the shorter man/the emerald-eyed Gryffindor" etc. is grounds for execution.
If the English language occasionally lacks adequate vocabulary, how on earth do writers using other, less Frankenstein's-monster-like/overly-endowed-with-stolen-words languages manage?