[lit-ideas] Re: Anonymity and revelation...
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:42:11 -0500
Then me would have to be capitalized, as in It was Me or It was John.
"It was me" becomes It was me [who wrote the post]. Can me write a post?
Or, as Brother Phlbert would say, can me not write a post?
> [Original Message]
> From: Paul Stone <pas@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 1/29/2006 10:33:21 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Anonymity and revelation...
>
>
> >>I don't know from nuns, but whether it's 'It was me,' or 'It was I' is
at
> >>least an open question. For the record, I was taught that it was the
> >>latter. Mike is saying, for short, 'I was I who dunnit.' If one asks
'Who
> >>dunnit?' the correct pronominal reply is 'He dunnit." The correct reply
> >>to 'By whom was it done?' is 'Him.' ('It was done by him.') And so on.
>
> I guess I'll have to break my self-imposed silence to settle this
quarrel.
> In the original post which Dame Judy questioned {TWICE I believe} the
> person in question wrote "it was "me" ", in which case the "me" becomes a
> noun, NOT a pronoun and therefore is perfectly grammatically correct. To
> change a "me" into an "I" is to pervert the sense of the sentence. If you
> say "it was "junior", you don't say "no, that's grammatically incorrect".
> IF someone signs an anonymous post to the BLOG "me" then it is, to me at
> least, perfectly correct to refer to that person in third person as "me".
> That's what their name is, as far as is evident to us - or is that "we"?
>
> never pronounal
>
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