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Gender | Male |
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Industry | Technology |
Occupation | Web Architect |
Location | Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
Introduction | Pronunciation: 'mE Function: pronoun, objective case of I Etymology: Middle English, from Old English mE; akin to Old High German mIh me, Latin me, Greek me, Sanskrit mA Usage: Me is used in many constructions where strict grammarians prescribe I. This usage is not so much ungrammatical as indicative of the shrinking range of the nominative form: me began to replace I sometime around the 16th century largely because of the pressure of word order. I is now chiefly used as the subject of an immediately following verb. Me occurs in every other position: absolutely <who, me?>, emphatically <me too>, and after prepositions, conjunctions, and verbs, including be <come with me> <you're as big as me> <it's me>. Almost all usage books recognize the legitimacy of me in these positions, especially in speech; some recommend I in formal and especially written contexts after be and after as and than when the first term of the comparison is the subject of a verb. |
Interests | Anything new, especially if it's complicated |
Favorite Movies | Seven Samurai, Ordinary People, The Shawshank Redemption, Festen, The Lion in Winter (1968), The Bridge on the River Kwai |
Favorite Music | Jazz standards, Akvarium |
Favorite Books | Till We Have Faces, Call It Sleep, Lord of the Rings, A Tale of Two Cities |
Never mind the turtle. Don't you think you're sure to win?
We're all winners, here *touches forehead*, and here *touches chest*.