Me’n You“It’s just me’n you, Luther.”
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a gallon-full of times. Heck, an oil drum-full of times. But when I say it in front of Mom, she comes right back at me.
“I’ll swear, Robert, I’ve taught you better than that.” She’s always promising to swear but never does. “That’s lazy speech on two fronts. It is ‘you and I,’ as you well know. I is a nominative pronoun, which can be the subject of a sentence. Me is an objective and can’t.”
“Yes, ma’am. I know. It’s I and you, But tha—”
“And that is your second problem. Grammar courtesy requires you put the other person first. So that would mean…”
“It’s just you and I, Luther?”
“Correct.”
Can you tell my mom’s a schoolteacher?
Anyway, once we got out of earshot, I reverted to being me. But Mom was wrong about o
