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 > > _________________ > [insert pithy quote here] > Paul Stone > pas@xxxxxxxx > Leamington, ON. Canada > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html