• SomeoneElseMod@feddit.ukOPM
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    1 year ago

    For anyone unsure when to use I or me, remove the “and X” and see if the sentence makes sense:

    My twin and I in the 80s > I in the 80s ❎

    Me and my twin in the 80s > me in the 80s ✅

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        1 year ago

        I think that the way we were taught it was wrong.

        It seemed that every time that I used “me and x” I was corrected to say “x and I”. They never gave a reason why it should be “x and I” so it seemed like it should always be that way. I imagine that there were cases where I wasn’t corrected because “me and x” was the correct way to say it but you don’t remember when they don’t correct you.

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          For convoluted linguistic reasons, “x and me,” is correct and the default expression in English for this type of subject. If I recall, “x and I” is how it would be said in Latin, and I believe the desire to sound more educated // “proper” (like Latin) was the original reason that this phrase was pushed onto children in schools, by well-intentioned but ignorant school masters.