Timeline for Should a photograph label read “you and I” or “you and me”? [duplicate]
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| Apr 6, 2013 at 16:03 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @Cerberus If you think native English speakers label things with bare subject pronouns instead of bare object pronouns, then you should stop reading style books and get to know some native speakers instead. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 16:00 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | @tchrist: We are clearly talking about different things. English is nothing like French. Read a few style books. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 15:52 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @Cerberus It’s not “my dialect”, so you can drop that now. There is no question of “traditional grammar” either. Read nohat’s answer. The default case in English is the object case. Native English speaker no more label things “I” than native French speakers label things “je”. It’s just plain me, just like it’s moi. In other languages, it works differently, but not here. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 15:39 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | @tchrist: In English, traditional grammar recommends "I" for subjects. The status of photo labels is debatable, as I said. I haven't studied your dialect. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 15:17 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2013 at 14:57 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | This is a picture of me: label it me. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 14:32 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | This is only a duplicate of the ice-cream question, not of the other one. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 14:01 | history | closed |
Jim Kris user19148 Barrie England tchrist♦ |
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| Apr 6, 2013 at 13:59 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @Cerberus In English, we would never label our photos in the nominative; it just isn’t done. One labels it “me”, never “I”. Same for the other pronouns. Nohat explains this here. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 13:56 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 9:19 | comment | added | J.R. | More on this here, here and here. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 7:49 | comment | added | Barrie England | I have voted to close, but I'll just say that you can use whichever you like. I would write 'Seth and me', because it's less formal. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 6:44 | answer | added | John M. Landsberg | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 6:10 | comment | added | Kris | Definite nTuplicate. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 4:52 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 6, 2013 at 4:40 | comment | added | Lachie Robinson | I know it's a similar question but I need an answer for this specific example. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 4:39 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | Both are used when it is the subject of a sentence; conventional grammar demands "Seth and I". Although your phrase is not a sentence, an ellipsis where this is the subject of the sentence seems the most reasonable. | |
| Apr 6, 2013 at 4:26 | history | asked | Lachie Robinson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |