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Is the word "me" becoming obsolete?

Posted on 12/24/15 at 2:20 pm
Posted by Rex
Here, there, and nowhere
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Posted on 12/24/15 at 2:20 pm
Over and over, more and more, I read and hear people (trying to sound erudite, apparently) substitute "you and I" or such when correct grammar calls for "you and me".

I'm not sure how I feel about that, actually. On the one hand, I resent the lack of education, but then I'm not opposed to streamlining the language where it makes sense to do so. "You", for example, works perfectly well as both a subject and object pronoun.

By the way... Irry Christmas.

Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 12/24/15 at 2:21 pm to
Erudite, nice word. I prefer scholarly
Posted by chryso
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
11943 posts
Posted on 12/24/15 at 2:21 pm to
Me say we reverse the trend.
Posted by Upperdecker
St. George, LA
Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 12/24/15 at 2:22 pm to
Do you mean when they substitute "you and I" for "you and me" as object pronouns or as subjects? Obviously the rules are different for both situations. But yea some people are trying too hard to use proper grammar
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
One State Solution
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Posted on 12/24/15 at 2:23 pm to
whom are you talking about?
Posted by cbi8
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Posted on 12/24/15 at 2:25 pm to
There aren't as many pirates today as there were years ago
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
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Posted on 12/24/15 at 2:30 pm to
quote:

Over and over, more and more, I read and hear people (trying to sound erudite, apparently) substitute "you and I" or such when correct grammar calls for "you and me".



One of my biggest pet peeves of all time. I think it's aggravated by the fact that said speaker is usually a pretentious hack.
Posted by Cdawg
TigerFred's Living Room
Member since Sep 2003
59615 posts
Posted on 12/24/15 at 3:04 pm to
quote:

Is the word "me" becoming obsolete?

No, but the word queer is.
Posted by BiggerBear
Redbone Country
Member since Sep 2011
2928 posts
Posted on 12/24/15 at 4:02 pm to
"myself" gets a lot of incorrect use as well.
Posted by Deege
Member since Dec 2007
845 posts
Posted on 12/24/15 at 4:47 pm to
This what you're talking about??



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