"with Frances and me"

Jocelyn Limpert jocelyn.limpert at GMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 1 06:59:30 UTC 2014


yes, I understood that after my initial response -- just had not seen it
and wasn't familiar with it!


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> On Jul 31, 2014, at 8:51 PM, Jocelyn Limpert wrote:
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> > No -- you would say "with me" and not "with I."
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> >> "with Frances and *I*"? :-( <jk>
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