Re: Re: they and them

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 4/15/05 9:57:48 AM, laurence.horn at YALE.EDU writes:


> 
> Well, perhaps, but note also "Me, myself, and I".  Of course, in
> their classic (1975) paper on the topic, Bill Cooper and Haj Ross did
> call the overarching principle "Me First".
> 

I do think that "Me, myself, and I" is a sardonic reference to the 
prescriptivist admonition that "I" should come last in a compound. Still "Me" definitely 
acts like the unmarked case in folk speech, as in "Me 'n' Jim's buddies."