'As intelligent as me' or 'As intelligent as I'?

[BogofFun]

It came up on a thread just now. Which is it? I always would have said 'me', but expat reckons it's 'I'.

me, innit

you don't say 'blah blah is more intelligent than I'

unless you are really thick?

Is it not the shortened form of "as intelligent as I am"?

Sometimes one has to consider the whole phrase/sentence.

Ithink I am rather than I, But WTF does me kno?

It is 'I' but it's very common to hear 'me'

'I' somehow sounds too formal as in the OP and phrases such as: 'He is older than I'

It is I.

It is "I" although until I checked I would have sworn it was "me"

It is I. May have to change my name though if I am going to post on this thread.

poo

that always happens if am showing off

nobody is as thick as me am

It is I - as onepieceoflollipop says, it is the shortened form of 'No-one is as intelligent as I am intelligent.'

you can always check whats right by adding teh (silence) verb

so (as others have said "as intelligent (or thick) as I am"

"as intelligent as me is" doesn't really work. If you think it does then you are not as intelligent as I

"As intelligent as I am"

Surely it's intelligent as me.

You wouldn't say "as tall as I" or "as clever as I". Both of these are the same sentence construction.

Try it in the third person too: "As intelligent as he" would be the equivalent.

I is correct but really, we say me now when we don't say the full verb.

I recall seeing in an Agatha Christie novel: "It's me, I said in an ungrammatical whisper" and wondering about it.

Of course it should be "It is I" but noboday says that.

Living language innit! You're never going to hear a child (or even an adult) say "oh, he's not as tall as I."

Kew's right.

It's an incomplete phrase - so, to get at the technically correct form, you have to add the verb, so that you can see that the pronoun is the subject of the phrase & so should be in the nominative - so "as intelligent as I am " "as tall as he is " "as clever as I am " etc.

However - idiom/vernacular (in the UK) is to use the object-form (accusative) so "me", "him", "her" etc. In the US, the idiom is more to use the technically correct grammatical form, which sounds very odd at first.

Overall, I'd file it in the category of curiosity - so not, you know, in the category of grocer's apostrophes.

Kew and a lot of other people!

I can see the rule. But surely it's outdated and obsolete now.