& I vs & me; a Pet Peeve...
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I admit I have difficulty with this one at times. I try to apply the test you give above; I test the sentence to see how it would sound if I were only applying it to myself.
For example, "Bob and I went to the store" is correct because "I went to the store" is correct. "Me and Bob went to the store" is incorrect because "Me went to the store" is incorrect. At least, that's what I believe is a correct test.
But there are times when it just seems wrong to use 'me' in place of 'I' or vice-versa. I will work on it more diligently.
Grammer Girl is one of my favorite resources for this type of thing.
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/between-you-and-me.aspx
Using the term "I" is kinds stupid, most of the time. Even as a child I remember teachers trying to correct me into saying I, but I was vindicated years later when, I was told "I" is way over used and the correct way to refer to yourself is to say "My Self"... in some cases.
Sean
I feel your pain and apply the same test. I think most folks go with what "sounds right."
My bitter pet peeve is the ongoing mixup between "then" and "than."
Or the word "irregardless," though this has now become an acceptable variation of the more proper "regardless."
I also twinge when my children "unthaw" things while they are sending "texteses" on their cell phones. Moments like that find me looking at them querulously and wondering aloud whose children they are and/or about the education system; I usually blame the latter.
My bitter pet peeve is the ongoing mixup between "then" and "than."
Or the word "irregardless," though this has now become an acceptable variation of the more proper "regardless."
I also twinge when my children "unthaw" things while they are sending "texteses" on their cell phones. Moments like that find me looking at them querulously and wondering aloud whose children they are and/or about the education system; I usually blame the latter.
I could care less, but I care too much.:ultracoolMine is a phrase
“I could care less”
Which should be
“I couldn’t care less”
Thank you, that be it for I
Unthaw!!! Way back in the day I worked as a stock clerk at a Ma & Pa store. The managing cashier asked me to take something out of the freezer to unthaw. I asked her which way she wanted it. Am I to take it out of the freezer to thaw, or to unthaw it by putting it in the freezer? Maybe I needed to thaw it before it was to be unthawed?
I got the "YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!" look and then I went and took it out of the freezer.
It makes sense when you say fell free to contact my wife, my daughter, my son, or myself. You start with the possesive, stay with it.
Sean
CoryKS
Senior Master
Myself isn't a possessive form, it's reflexive.
OK fine but use it in that case anyway. LOL
Sean
CoryKS
Senior Master
Maybe not the right term, I dunno, but the point being it's self-referential. You can't do something to himself, he can't do something to yourself. You can do whatever you want to yourself.
I usually see this at work, and people are using it as in "Bob and myself". So whether the example you gave works or not, they're still doing it wrong.
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
So to sum up
Me should be saying to yourself to contact myself but than irregardless it sounds right but than I and you should continue to discuss this so we ain't gotta unthaw it later but then frankly me could care less
Now if youself will excuse I me must now mambo dogface to the banana patch :uhyeah:
Me should be saying to yourself to contact myself but than irregardless it sounds right but than I and you should continue to discuss this so we ain't gotta unthaw it later but then frankly me could care less
Now if youself will excuse I me must now mambo dogface to the banana patch :uhyeah:
CoryKS
Senior Master
Hey, buddy! Watch your language, this is a family site.
Don't Bannanas come in bunches?
Sean
Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
HEY!!! Who yourself calling a kid Me myself is a geezer and really happy to be one myself
I thought I was just not savvy enough to get the joke... myself.
Sean
yourself isn't...myself is
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