I know. Piece of I Heart didn't help matters.

Either is correct, for each uses a different, and legitimate, grammatical road to reach its meaning.

"Me" is the objective case of the pronoun, the object of the verb "is."

"I" is the subject of the sentence, and the "it" is pointing towards the "I." So aside from sounding a touch Dudley Do-Right, you're all right. Which one you're going to use will depend on what subtleties of tone you want to convey.

What you wouldn't do is say, "Want to talk perfect, like I?"

Hello, it's me
I've thought about us for a long, long time

UT, was that directed toward UG or me?

good a place as any...

Hey, look! I pulled a Dude111!!!

I'm a resurecshu--rezyuresc--I resurrected a thread!

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A few years ago I spotted an ad in a local newspaper for a job at the Royal Grammer School, High Wycombe.

I am not making this up.

Someone needs to run the Instagram accounts for the royal family.

Damn You AutoCorrect!

You had ONE job!

The guy who invented autocorrect died recently, may he rust in piss.

Auto-correct changed extubation to extinction in one of my SiL's texts funny / not funny.

I'm curious if our dear friend Carruthers has much experience with AutoCorrect and, more comically, any experience at all with the stupidly funny DYAC.


...moments later.....



NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Stroke... hmm... it's probably a good thing that coxswain is pronounced "cox'n."

("Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! . . .")

I've noticed something recently while listening to Youtube reactors and reviewers - I've only noticed it with Americans but it could also be something some do over here as well and maybe I just haven't noticed it.

When referring to a single event or moment in a show, they'll say 'whenever X character did that thing, it was great.' Where I would say 'When character X did that thing it was great.'

I've noticed it with so many different youtubers - is it a difference between American and British English, a generational thing, a regional thing?

To me "whenever X does that thing" usually implies you don't know if, or at least when, X will do it, but it's great when it happens.

If X does the thing at predictable intervals, it should be when X does that thing.

But you know these whippersnappers don't talk no good. ;)

Yeah - 'whenever he does that' suggests it's a recurring but not regular thing. 'Whenever he did that' means you are discussing all the times he did that, or are linking it to something else that occurred each time he did that.

It's like describing a scene from Titanic and starting it with 'whenever the ship finally sank'

That would vary each time they ran the film. :haha:

It's a generational thing, in my experience. I hear it far more often from under-30s than over-30s.

When Character X got off my lawn....

lol

I'll start watching for that. To be fair, with our education system, we only have a passing familiarity with English.

Chalk it up to an adverb gone wild. Originally used for emphasis in questions, it's now used emphatically everywhere. When he did that... = At least the first time he did that. Whenever he did that... = every time he did that.

when·ev·er

adverb

… 1. used for emphasis instead of “when” in questions, typically expressing surprise or confusion.
"whenever shall we get there?"

I blame Shakira's - Whenever, Wherever - for popularizing the word leading to excessive applications in pop culture. Maybe you had to be here.

Whatever.

It's almost always bracketed by other young vocal tics, in my experience:

"Like, whenever I went to the store, or whatever? I bought one of those new mashed-avocado-in-a-cup things."

It often indicates a distinct event, whose exact timeframe isn't certain.