[lit-ideas] Re: Me Attacks I Sucessfully
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- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:26:26 EST
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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