A confession to make....

[conuly]

Although I do dislike prescriptivism, the reality is that my normal dialect is actually very close to Standard American English. I even use the subjunctive, and the word whom. It's tragic :(

When I say things like "youse guys" or "djusk' a" or the random Latin, I'm doing that consciously because I want a more interesting idiolect.

I'm sorry for misleading people.

*sniffles*

Well, that's done. Now we can forget it ever happened, okay?

Oh, and something else - just because prescriptivism is evil does NOT mean that I have given up the right to thwomp you all seriously for saying something nonstandard (if I think that's what you're trying to do). If you don't want to be corrected, you should say so, because I hate to see something that's very nearly standard, but not quite. So if you're typing standard english, standard english, standard english, between him and I, standard english - expect me to yell and change the I to a me. And explain why. Ad nauseam.

Thank you.

Again, let's just forget this ever happened.

*runs off*

Comments

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

Since they're objects of a preposition, it'd be "him and me". At least I think that's why it's that way.

The trouble is that people get drilled into them. The whole "Don't say me an'" thing.

Then they don't realize that "He and I went to the store" is grammatical in standard American English but that, for instance, "They got pizza for him and me" is also standard and "They got pizza for he and I" would be wrong. The rule has gotten so drilled in that a lot of people go the opposite way now.

(At least I think I got all that right. It's been awhile since I've read an English textbook.)

[conuly]

You're completely right. It irritates me that people hypercorrect. That's even worse than being prescriptivist, hypercorrection. *shudders*