You would think that the LVA would know proper English. A taxi doesn't pick my wife and I up, any more than a taxi would pick I up.The correct pronoun is "me". It's almost like those dummies that say "Me and my friend want to go home". If you were alone would you say "Me wants to go home"? Of course the correct pronoun in this case is "I".
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Chex, I don't believe you can do much about the dumbing down of the English language in this country. Have you noticed what is happpening to the adverb (my favorite example is "drive safe.")?
George
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Chex817 <chex817@...> wrote:
You would think that the LVA would know proper English. A taxi doesn't pick my wife and I up, any more than a taxi would pick I up.The correct pronoun is "me". It's almost like those dummies that say "Me and my friend want to go home". If you were alone would you say "Me wants to go home"? Of course the correct pronoun in this case is "I".
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There are many of us who appreciate your post regarding grammar. Whenever confronted with the question: "Where you at?" I simply respond: "I are at here". Long live we dinosaurs! 
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On Aug 16, 2010, at 10:51 AM, PAUL DEANGELIS <agonpd@gmail.com> wrote:
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warning: xxxvp and somewhat self-indulgent....i think this is more an example of analogous usage rather than poor grammar,
as in Be safe : Drive safe. And there has been a move from prescriptive to
descriptive grammar since at least the 60's (there ya go, i started a
sentence with 'And'). i mean, honestly, chex, how many people on a phone or
at a door, say, "Hi, it's I.", which would be 'correct' according to your
example with the taxi driver. In usage, however (not in prescription),
'accepted' usage is that the taxi driver's error is egregious, but "Hi, it's
me", is not (actually, this type of discussion generally does not become
productive and is best avoided--for instance, to complicate things further
[let's not get started on 'further' and 'farther'], note that i place the
comma outside of "Hi, it's me", even though in america that is not 'proper';
i find it can be confusing, as do the british, so i put the comma after the
quotation mark, as they do).*
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*by the way, please don't start a long thread based on this (although i've
already been guilty of logorhhoea--great word (not to be confused with
'logorhhea'--see, it can go on and on) since we could argue forever over
prescriptive/descriptive grammar, nor am i touting one over another (well, i
guess you could call me out on my not using caps in my emails, even though,
as an ex-english teacher, i know better, but i have fat, clumsy fingers, and
using the caps key cuts my typing speed in half).*
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*i remember when i first joined this group i was lashed by a vp expert for
my pointing out that 'affect' can be used as a noun; he even had the support
of his friend, the college professor (they were both wrong, of course. [?] ).
i have avoided any like discussion since then, until now. i hope you read my
warning up front before subjecting yourself to this tirade. no, um,
harangue? screed? diatribe? ....?
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:11 PM, George <wxmen@sonic.net> wrote:Chex, I don't believe you can do much about the dumbing down of the English
language in this country. Have you noticed what is happpening to the adverb
(my favorite example is "drive safe.")?George
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com <vpFREE%40yahoogroups.com>, Chex817
<chex817@...> wrote:You would think that the LVA would know proper English. A taxi doesn't
pick my wife and I up, any more than a taxi would pick I up.The correct
pronoun is "me". It's almost like those dummies that say "Me and my friend
want to go home". If you were alone would you say "Me wants to go home"? Of
course the correct pronoun in this case is "I".Sent from my iPad
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There are many of us who appreciate your post regarding grammar. Whenever
confronted with the question: "Where you at?" I simply respond: "I are at
here". Long live we dinosaurs!
I believe the appropriate, grammatical response is now: "I be's here. Why you
aksing?"
Guru
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It's the ESPN?WPT influence. "Played that tight". "Thought that out perfect" Need the -lys !
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "George" <wxmen@...> wrote:
Chex, I don't believe you can do much about the dumbing down of the English language in this country. Have you noticed what is happpening to the adverb (my favorite example is "drive safe.")?
George
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Chex817 <chex817@> wrote:
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> You would think that the LVA would know proper English. A taxi doesn't pick my wife and I up, any more than a taxi would pick I up.The correct pronoun is "me". It's almost like those dummies that say "Me and my friend want to go home". If you were alone would you say "Me wants to go home"? Of course the correct pronoun in this case is "I".
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> Sent from my iPad
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