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Exactly. As you may know, the general phenomenon is called [hypercorrection](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorr

• 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