[thechat] thechat's mission:

javier velasco lists at mantruc.com
Mon Dec 9 13:39:00 CST 2002


ya know... it's so funny how we take things up to the last consequences
on this list.

we could have a line like... "thechat: no truth is too dark for us!"

;-)

Madhu Menon wrote:
>
> At 09:12 AM 09-12-02, Lachlan Cannon wrote:
> >Hmm.. I was always taught that when you had a list of people your name
> >always went last and was always "I". Damn you, education system!
>
> The "I" going last is merely for politeness. "I and Lach went on a trip" is
> as correct as "Lach and I went on a trip".
>
> Isaac's test is the easiest. Remove all the other people from the sentence
> and see whether "I" or "me" is more appropriate. I would've used "I" if I
> wrote it like this: "Joel, Garrett, Ben, and I completed one year as admins
> of evolt.org."



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