[ScottieK]

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I can't be arsed to read this whole thread, but has anyone brought up the "____ and I" problem that 99.999999995% of America seems to have? It's not always "____ and I." For instance, "my mom had two cookies left, so she gave them to my sister and I" just sounds incredibly retarded. It's "my mom had two cookies left, so she gave them to my sister and me." "My sister and I ate the cookies." It's not that difficult. Just take the "___ and" part out of the sentence, think about whether you'd say "I" or "me" and then use whichever you would use without the other person being mentioned. You wouldn't say "my mom gave I a cookie."

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I blame teachers. When I was in elementary school, teachers would always warn us against the "me-and" disease when kids would say something like "me and Mike were in the sandbox." They would get corrected by a teacher who would say, "no, that's 'Mike and I.' Don't get the 'me-and' disease!" Naturally, kids learned to avoid putting "and" and "me" together, whether it was correct or not.

Yeesh, nit relapse. Sorry about that.

ScottieK