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Old 11-13-2007, 04:03 PM
Hawklet Hawklet is offline
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Default Pet Peeve: People Misusing \"him and I\"

I don't understand why this is so annoying to me. I'm ok with people saying "him and me went to the mall" because they just don't know any better or don't care. I think it's because it's people over compensating for grammar problems which makes them sound stupid when they're trying to sound smarter than everyone.

Example 1:

"Stu and I went to school together."
Right perfect nothing wrong. First Person subjective.

Example 2:

"Pass the ball to John and I."
No! Just because it comes in a series doesn't mean you should use "I" if you're the last element. It just makes you sound like a pretentious d-bag. It's first person objective, everyone else uses "me", why can't you?


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Really? Couldn't think of a more possessive first person word? I mean you went to college and everything, I'm sure if you were gonna take the time to use "I" (because no one naturally says that) you could figure out that that's wrong.

I don't know why this bothers me. But I want to smack everyone who does this.
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Old 11-13-2007, 04:04 PM
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Old 11-13-2007, 04:05 PM
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Default Re: Pet Peeve: People Misusing \"him and I\"

limesparks and me don't get it?
IS he right or is I right?
I don't believe him
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Old 11-13-2007, 04:06 PM
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Default Re: Pet Peeve: People Misusing \"him and I\"

I dunno, I naturally use I.

'My brother and me are in college', sounds dumb to me.
'My brother and I are in college', sounds less dumb.

People using "I's" are stupid though.
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Old 11-13-2007, 04:07 PM
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Default Re: Pet Peeve: People Misusing \"him and I\"

I dont really understand what youre trying to say, but i type how i speak and if you dont like it go [censored] yourself and stuff [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

I hate people who shrtn wrds 2 jst uz da lwst nmbr o lttrz. Its not clever, and when you type m8 and stuff like sk8er boi you actually lose a little piece of your soul.

I can get away with it cos i have no soul, because i killed someone once for texting that crap to me. Pay the extra ten pence and send two messages you cheap [censored] bastard!!!
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Old 11-13-2007, 04:07 PM
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Old 11-13-2007, 04:07 PM
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Default Re: Pet Peeve: People Misusing \"him and I\"

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It just makes you sound like a pretentious d-bag.

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said the pretentious d-bag
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Old 11-13-2007, 04:08 PM
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Default Re: Pet Peeve: People Misusing \"him and I\"

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It just makes you sound like a pretentious d-bag.

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said the pretentious d-bag

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well i am LDO
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Old 11-13-2007, 04:09 PM
Hawklet Hawklet is offline
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Default Re: Pet Peeve: People Misusing \"him and I\"

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I dunno, I naturally use I.

'My brother and me are in college', sounds dumb to me.
'My brother and I are in college', sounds less dumb.

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The second one is correct.

I'm talking about people that say "are you going to my brother and I's college next year?
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Old 11-13-2007, 04:09 PM
DING-DONG YO DING-DONG YO is offline
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Default Re: Pet Peeve: People Misusing \"him and I\"

meh, I would like to flame you, but the misuse of their/there/they're/you're/your annoy me just as much.
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