[lit-ideas] Re: Me Attacks I Sucessfully

Methinks me has squirrels in me attic.  What one does about that is  unclear.
 
Julie Krueger

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Eric, from Fowler's Modern English Usage, 2nd  edn:

> The use of "me" in colloquialisms such as "It's me" and "it  wasn't me" 
> is perhaps the only successful attack made by "me" on  "I."

This nicely illustrates Paul Stone's point that quotation marks make  all 
the difference. I mean, what if I were to attack me?

Robert  Paul

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