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Nitpick: "to Joe, Nate, and I" should be "to Joe, Nate, and me."

• Myrmornis 13y ago
  This is starting be very widespread and it is embarassing because the primary cause is a vague idea that it is "more educated" to say "I" than "me", which of course backfires horribly when you reveal publicly the fact that you don't know that "I" should only be used as the subject of the sentence.
  • dmourati 13y ago
    Agree. See this tweet from before reading this: https://twitter.com/dmourati/status/457641268525289472 https://twitter.com/dmourati/status/457641268525289472 Hint: remove Joe and Nate from the sentence and then pick I/me, you'll get it right every time.
  • lexcorvus 13y ago
    Exactly. As you may know, the general phenomenon is called [hypercorrection](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection).
    • Myrmornis 13y ago
      ...linguists Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum claim that utterances such as "They invited Sandy and I" are "heard constantly in the conversation of people whose status as speakers of Standard English is clear"; and that "Those who condemn it simply assume that the case of a pronoun in a coordination must be the same as when it stands alone. Actual usage is in conflict with this assumption." It may take me some time to calm down after reading that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection