Ah, so you're a conjunctionist, uh? :-) Conjunctions are supposed to connect whole sentences, and while "I am" is a complete sentence, "I" is not, which casts

Ah, so you're a conjunctionist, uh? :-) Conjunctions are supposed to connect whole sentences, and while "I am" is a complete sentence, "I" is not, which casts doubt on the correctness of "than I", thereby hinting that "than" in this case is a preposition, which mush therefore be followed by an object, e.g. "me". It's a two century old debate, but I say we settle it right now, right here, on Hacker News, once and for all. tl;dr: "than me" and "than I am" are correct. "than I" is not.