Me went to the store
Something I have been hearing often, way too often, is the misuse of the pronoun ME. It grates on my nerves, I shudder, and I slip into quickly stating when I hear:
Me and Sam want to get together to play, can we?
Sam and I ….
And then it happens again by the child’s parent.
Me and Mr. Smith ate at Red Robin last night.
And so it goes on and on. Where ever I am I hear the same grammar error over and over. Would you say:
Me ate at Red Robin last night.
Of course not! You would say:
I ate at Red Robin last night.
For some reason I thought news anchors would be exempt from making such a silly grammar error. But no. It seems more and more frequently I hear folks saying;
“Me and Sally……” UGH! Rip off my ears now!
It doesn’t matter who you are, if you are around me I will correct you. So be prepared. If you hear someone say;
Sally and I…
it just might be me. Or you, you could join me in my fight to have proper grammar spoken. Here’s to I being used as the subject noun.
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April 7th, 2007 @ 10:49 am
I am LOL here because I have the same pet peive. And the fact that my friends (in their 30’s and 40’s) who have been schooled more than my children, don’t say it right but my children do, makes me really wonder what they actually learned while they went to school. Good luck on your crusade!
April 16th, 2007 @ 8:43 am
That one doesn’t bother me as much as the misues of “myself.”
It’s the formal version of “Me and Sam.” I’ll explain, take the socio-eco class that says “me and Sam” and put them in a formal situation, say on the witness stand, and they KNOW that Me and Sam isn’t correct. The same people switch to what they imagine is formal English, “Officer Smith and myself interrogated the suspect.” You can bet that as soon as they step down from the witness stand it’s all about, “Bob and me are going out for a beer…”
Sam and me is wrong, but at least it’s not pretentious like the “myself” mode.
Hey, I added you to my link list at my new blog.