Comments on: Me went to the store http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2007/04/07/me-went-to-the-store/ Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.....� Thomas Henry Huxley Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:52:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 By: Myrtle http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2007/04/07/me-went-to-the-store/#comment-1643 Myrtle Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:43:47 +0000 http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2007/04/07/me-went-to-the-store/#comment-1643 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. 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.

]]> By: Gherkin http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2007/04/07/me-went-to-the-store/#comment-1635 Gherkin Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:49:39 +0000 http://mtpleasant.homeschooljournal.net/2007/04/07/me-went-to-the-store/#comment-1635 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! 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!

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