Me won!
Posted on 02/24/2009 10:38:52 AM PST by reaganaut1
When President Obama speaks before Congress and the nation tonight, he will be facing some of his toughest critics.
Grammar junkies.
Since his election, the president has been roundly criticized by bloggers for using “I” instead of “me” in phrases like “a very personal decision for Michelle and I” or “the main disagreement with John and I” or “graciously invited Michelle and I.”
The rule here, according to conventional wisdom, is that we use “I” as a subject and “me” as an object, whether the pronoun appears by itself or in a twosome. Thus every “I” in those quotes ought to be a “me.”
So should the president go stand in a corner of the Oval Office (if he can find one) and contemplate the error of his ways? Not so fast.
For centuries, it was perfectly acceptable to use either “I” or “me” as the object of a verb or preposition, especially after “and.” Literature is full of examples. Here’s Shakespeare, in “The Merchant of Venice”: “All debts are cleared between you and I.” And here’s Lord Byron, complaining to his half-sister about the English town of Southwell, “which, between you and I, I wish was swallowed up by an earthquake, provided my eloquent mother was not in it.”
It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that language mavens began kvetching about “I” and “me.” The first kvetch cited in Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage came from a commencement address in 1846. In 1869, Richard Meade Bache included it in his book “Vulgarisms and Other Errors of Speech.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Obama’s just using a high class form of ebonics....
Gesundheit
Didn't his Grammar just die recently?
I, three.
And using ‘impact’ as a transitive verb.
You clearly aren’t hooked on Obamics.
This is fair game when dealing with a malignant narcissist whom the MSM has labeled “brilliant”.
Democrats and the lefties are always bitching about how we have to live in the 21st Century and the Constitution is a "living document" that should evolve.
Now they defend the idiotONE's speech patterns based on centuries old grammar rules?
Fine, the right will back off on what an idiot Obama is when speaking english when the left starts understanding and interpreting the Constitution according to 1600's patterned English. Let's start with a couple of phrases
"shall not be infringed" and "well regulated" ....
Yes, I’m sure he’s thinking of Shakespeare when he makes these gaffes.But that’s OK, as obama himself would say, “It’s not that big of a deal.”
According to conventional wisdom???? No, genius, according to the rules of grammar.
Won't be too long before smoking is cool again.
Me won!
Methinks you are correct!
Whoa. Stop right there! Who said we'd be watching?
The new language czar.
His favorite word these days is “CRISIS”. How I long for just one of Reagan’s speeches today, being positive and doing REAL things to back it up. Sigh . . . (a tear falls) . . .
I have a button with a saying attributed to King Sigismund the First:
Ego sum rex Romanus et super grammaticam.
"I am the Roman king and above grammar."
(That's probably the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, 1410-1437, the one who gave John Huss a safe-conduct but didn't honor it).
Which is gramactically correct.
Me lost 50% of my 401K or,
I lost 50% of my 401K
You know, with all the challenges we face, the focus of the article is grammer????
That’s the drive by media for you
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