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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.



Agree. See this tweet from before reading this: 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.


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


...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




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