Greetings

[Pyrgusfinn]

who were you directing that towards?

[Darth Wyndisis]

What's going on here?

[MagmarFire]

Hey, I thought I was the grammar Nazi around here! :'(

[Hi no Seijin]

That position is filled by several people, Mags.

[Pyrgusfinn]

Indeed.

[MagmarFire]

So there are multiple grammar Nazis here that are worthy of being referred to as the grammar Nazi?

[Keaton]

That position is filled by several people, Mags.

That's what she said.

[Pyrgusfinn]

indeed

[Mysterious F.]

A general rule of thumb - Remove the other person and just use I/me.  "You wish you were as cool as I" doesn't make sense, "You wish you were as cool as me" does.

My English teacher would kill you if she heard you say that.

[Darth Wyndisis]

ZOMG CR@ZY MURDEROUS ENGLISH TEECHERS....
















WITH SCISSORS!!!!1

[Keaton]

A general rule of thumb - Remove the other person and just use I/me.  "You wish you were as cool as I" doesn't make sense, "You wish you were as cool as me" does.

My English teacher would kill you if she heard you say that.

Well then, your English teacher is wrong.

[MagmarFire]

A general rule of thumb - Remove the other person and just use I/me.  "You wish you were as cool as I" doesn't make sense, "You wish you were as cool as me" does.

My English teacher would kill you if she heard you say that.

Well then, your English teacher is wrong.

Yes, dead wrong; I is a nominative pronoun, and me is objective. Since the pronoun follows a preposition, it is an object of a preposition, and must, therefore, take on the objective case.

Wait, I just thought of something. Actually, "You wish you were as cool as I," does make sense because the linking verb am (or whatever form of be fits the scenario) is understood because the sentence is making a comparison (comparisons often omit words), making I the subject of a clause and ensuring that it should be of the nominative case.

[Keaton]

To every rule an exception.

[MagmarFire]

But does that mean to every exception, there's an exception, too? And wouldn't that round it back to it being a rule, or would it just be a double exception?

AMBIGUITY!!! D:

[Uximadesk]

That's a rule too.