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Grammar pedants - help please.

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♪♫ Synge ♪♫ May 2020 4:15pm, 19 May 2020 33,464 posts	Quote Pin ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Ice hockey, presumably?
RichHL May 2020 4:19pm, 19 May 2020 13,854 posts	Quote Pin RichHL Do we know any Canadians to ask? Other than my ex? She wasn't a hockey fan in any case.
sallykate May 2020 4:31pm, 19 May 2020 6,428 posts	Quote Pin sallykate Presumably. A Canadian friend shared a picture from her local park, in Toronto.
Vancouver Jogger May 2020 4:41pm, 19 May 2020 4,754 posts	Quote Pin Vancouver Jogger
GlennR May 2020 4:52pm, 19 May 2020 50,019 posts	Quote Pin GlennR A punt pole would be safer.
Badger May 2020 5:03pm, 19 May 2020 12,257 posts	Quote Pin Badger twitter.com
Northern Exile May 2020 6:25pm, 19 May 2020 6,412 posts	Quote Pin Northern Exile Another vote for The Guardian to just fuck off (note split infinitive). They've been crap lately and I've removed their app from my phone, I am now an Independent reader p.s. Please help me to understand how conjunctions can govern inflected cases. I don't get it - is that a latin thingummyjig?
swittle May 2020 6:47pm, 19 May 2020 63,880 posts	Quote Pin swittle In Latin, a conjunction does not govern a case; a preposition does. Example: Per ardua Ad Astra = Through hardships to the stars. Both the prepositions, 'Per' and 'Ad' govern the accusative case. So it doesn't feel left out, the other case is the ablative. Example: sine nomine = without a name. Here endeth the snippet lecture.
Badger May 2020 6:54pm, 19 May 2020 12,259 posts	Quote Pin Badger He was joking, NE, and he definitely didn’t mean it, because then it would be correct to say “Annie and me went to the movies last night.”
Northern Exile May 2020 8:03pm, 19 May 2020 6,413 posts	Quote Pin Northern Exile Ah, I see. Sorry, that one went straight over my head. Steve - thanks for that, got it. I'm all about prepositions and cases 🙂