Twiley and me · 12:31pm Jan 4th, 2014
Just something a bit annoying I've noticed.
People tend to know about not writing "Me and Twiley were walking around" or "Among the participants were Twiley and me". Apparently, the fear of this error has been rooted deep enough by now.
Unfortunately, however, it's been rooted so deep that when people see something like "There they saw Twiley and me", the same people inexplicably feel the need to 'correct' it into "There they saw Twiley and I". Shudder.
The thing is, 'and' is not a magic word. It doesn't make 'me' into 'I' any more than it makes 'I' into 'me'. If you would say "I did this and this", you still say "I and Twiley did it". And if you would say "Did you see me?", you still say "You totally saw Twiley and me."
The horror of horror are the people who put 'I' in 'Twiley and me', no matter what. Some even think it looks 'better', more sophisticated that way.
It doesn't. It's horrible.
Then there are the people who seem to think 'whom' is the correct pronoun for everything...
Not trying to be Nazi about this, just think it's particularly annoying when people 'correct' things that are not wrong.
Cheers :)
