Comments on: On the Proper Use of ‘Me’ and ‘I’

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:14:34 +0000

Yeah, you make I weep, too.

By: Tyler Karaszewski

Tyler Karaszewski — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:06:32 +0000

Grammar is all well and good, but I’d gladly give up some grammatical nuance in favor of logical thinking if I could, it’s unfortunately low in supply in places like internet forums and blog comments.

This is an aside, I know, but language is a tool for communicating ideas, and I’d rather that people communicated good ideas in slightly sloppy (though usually still totally understandable) ways, rather than communicating poorly thought-out ideas with perfect style. The quality of writing used to convey a ridiculous idea seems immaterial to me.

Sorry for the tangent.

By: Ameya

Ameya — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:27:27 +0000

This drives me crazy too. I always try to explain “Would you use I there if X person wasn’t in the sentence?!” But they just tell me I’m wrong. ME AM NOT WRONG! ME KNOW GRAMMAR!! :(

It’s nails on a chalkboard to me too. I’m certainly not perfect grammatically, but that’s one of my pet peeves!

By: Eden Jaeger

Eden Jaeger — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:13:22 +0000

Me likey!

By: Michael Rawdon

Michael Rawdon — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:02:59 +0000

Me understand now. This always confused I.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:59:45 +0000

I use we/us as a check for I/me, though I’m not entirely sure that’ll help anyone else.

By: jafer

jafer — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:39:59 +0000

Perfect. That’s the way I taught it to my kids when they were younger. Now they’re always running around correcting others.