Me either

[TheShellBeach]

............ should be me neither, surely?

Yes, lying face up is supine.

It would depend on what you were saying but the liklihood is if you are using me in "me neither" "nor me" would be correct.

I is not just a more formal version of me.

I saw that, but didn't connect the dots that it was you. I thought at the time it was unreasonable as that is the whole point of the board. 🤦‍♂️

Can't bloody win anywhere in this life.

It's a Cole Porter classic song: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

It begins ' 'You say eether, I say eyether'...

(NB I've attempted to type that as a pronunciation guide!)

It's really a love song - and very good.

🤣🤣🤣

It was a particular poster who got arsey with me, so I abandoned Pedants' Corner for a while

I might return, though.

Sorry @TheShellBeach it's by George Gershwin not Cole Porter. Doh!

Seek out the Peter Skellern version - it's really good!

Pedantry should be played on a level playing field: like the stand-off I (Company Secretary, qualified solicitor) have going on with the Chair of our Board (also a qualified solicitor) where she determinedly “corrects” my placement of semi colons, use of Oxford commas, sentence structure and so on, and I steadfastly continue to either ignore or recorrect her edits and write in my preferred way regardless. Each of us is following grammatical principles which are often agreed to be equally correct, or for which usage can be legitimately argued; each of us is equally educated; neither of us is willing to back down. We are pedants of equal standing.

Mocking people whose literacy is poor because they weren’t fortunate enough to receive a good education or because they have learning difficulties is not pedantry, it’s just unnecessarily unkind, and it’s hardly a mark of pride.

“ Led on the bed” is even worse than laying!
Pack lunch instead of packed lunch
Mash potato instead of mashed

I didn't read the post on pedants corner as mocking anyone to be honest. At the end of the day, every person who writes anything, is probably doing so believing it is correct. So, in a way, any post on pedants corner is mocking to a degree.

P.S. I have seen some shockers from chairpersons in the past 🤦‍♂️

😂😂 singing along Peridot