This Drives Me Insane

Evil

I wasn't born in this country and English isn't my first language; I started learning English when I was about 4 or 5. I think it's common among non-native speakers of a language to process it more literally and to take the rules more seriously because, after all, we learned the language by learning the rules.

Actually, I don't remember all the rules anymore. I wish I did. But here's something that I'm pretty sure is incorrect usage and it drives me f'ing berserk!!! When someone uses "I" when they really meant to use "me." A couple of examples:

"Picture of Evan and I at the beach."

"Gift given to Mara and I."

Why do people do this? It's ME, people. It's ME.

(I have many more pet peeves. I'll save them for future posts. What are yours? Let I know in the comments section!)

D-Bag of the Month

My friends.....

I really enjoyed watching the Democrats this week. Not because I'm a Democrat necessarily (I'm registered Independent), but because it just seemed like fun, and the news anchors were such a mess (well documented on The Hose), and Ben Affleck won his poker tournament in Denver. All in all a good week.

Unfortunately I'm not really looking forward to the Republican convention as much. Not because I particularly dislike them (they've got Arnold Schwarzenegger after all!) or McCain in particular, but just because. It's been that "just because" that I've had a hard time figuring out the past couple of months, but I realized what it is today. KillerB2 and I have talked about it before, but just today I realized how much it drives me nuts - McCains use of "My friends" to start his sentences. I hate it. I hate the delivery. I hate the linguistic crutch.

If Condescension and Insincerity met at a bar one night, got drunk, and had unprotected sex, their lovechild would come out as an audio recording of John McCain saying "my friends."

I can't be the only one who feels this way?