The than I/than me debate: MN jury required!

[IAmSherlocked]

Bob is more knowledgeable than I.

or

Bob is more knowledgeable than me?

I used the first version yesterday and was corrected by someone who said it should be the second. If I google it, there seems to be no consensus of opinion. While the general feeling is that the former is grammatically correct, the latter is becoming accepted usage.

Opinions, please! and please agree with me because the person I was arguing with is really smug and needs to be taken down a peg or two

Sherlocked - especially as some of us keep changing sides :o

That can go for either the original question or Bob.

Mooncup - yes, but where does that leave us now?

We can float in a happy haze of self-satisfaction, Impy, knowing that whichever form we choose to employ is sanctioned by historical usage.

:o

Maryz - I like your style.

I reckon this all starts when people learn not to say things like "Bob and me went to the shops", or, even worse, "Me and Bob"... etc. So far so good, but they then start to worry that the use of "me" might make them sound thick (or should that be "make they sound thick"?) and start saying daft things like "They gave it to Bob and I" or "The award was for Bob and I". And then, well down the slippery slope, they trump their linguistic accomplishments with "Bob is more knowledgeable than I" and the like, while relying on an imaginary half-sentence that no-one was ever going to say, and didn't need to, in order to cover their tangled web.

Meanwhile the rest of us just say "A is more than B".

But I is correct!

You sound verrrrrrry upset by the ellipsed (is that the word?) sentence thing prism. It is a valid grammar analysis approach thang though.

Do you not want to join in the jollity?

Or perhaps you were being jolly and I misread it, in which case apologies (understand "I present my")

in german it's than i.

they use "ich" as the form.

early english wouldn't have followed those rules, and it would have been taken on with the saxons.

depends on what you choose to accept....

the latin break infinitive rule is bollocks though - we have a language that allows infinitives to be broken, so we should (incidentally, german also allows splitting of verb words)

examples
although they think that i is correct in english.

i'm with Imp on the hypercorrection.

this agrees with us
there's a little note at the bottom under the sword.

conclusion (may i use the gavel?)

both are correct (with I being much more formal than me)