When the first person is the subject in a sentence, "I"
is universally correct. Example: I like him. He likes me. In the first, the first person is the subject. That's why it is "I". In the latter, the first person is the object, hence "me".
In a sentence:
I had no such intention. Your post was non-accusatory or an attack. I treat posters with respect when they post respectfully, as you did.
He has a history of mangling the English language. It's not a one-off.
Everyone but shack please scroll past this post. Lol.
90% of people do not write as meticulously as I do. If I were to get angered or critical about it every time I encountered such people, I would be the most insufferable person on the planet. I would never learn anything from anyone. That would be an impoverished life.
Sorry to derail the thread with this everyone, but I just got so itchy to say this:
Re. the grammar lesson above, it’s based on somewhat archaic English rules about not using ‘me’ as a subject. It’s true that two subjects are being compared. The problem is if you used these rules by the book, you’d be a very bad or at the very least, eccentric writer.
If you wanted to use this rule in a non-archaic and complete way, you’d say “He is smarter than I am.” Just as we don’t exclaim “
It is I!” every time someone asks“who dis?” when you call them, you wouldn’t (well, shouldn’t) say it the OG way.
Using ‘me’ isn’t wrong, even if seen as an object in this case. It’s not “doing” anything in the sentence “He is smarter than me,” so to speak. Think of it as being “acted upon” by the comparison being made. That is why it doesn’t sound funny in contemporary English to say this at all. It’s a bit more casual, to be sure, but I would not call that butchering the English language in any way whatsoever. It is fully appropriate in most contexts except very formal writing.
Proper English (TM) has many implicit rules of usage, and most linguists will say these count for correctness and fluency too. That’s why non-native speakers always sound very formal and stiff. English is a strange mutty language wrt rules in particular.
Anyway I didn’t mean to get autistic about it, but yeah. He definitely wasn’t wrong.
Hope that makes sense!