Stephanie Abrams is a meteorologist on The Weather Channel. Unfortunately, she speaks like a grammar-challenged teenager: “Me and Jen were both posting on Twitter and Facebook how that relates to the past year… (May 18, 2011)
Jeopardy contestants are smart, right? Beverly Jones, a contestant on Jeopardy, is a lawyer. She made this verbal faux-pas on the show that aired May 18, 2011: “Me and my husband Alex cut our wedding cake with my father’s dress sword…”
The character Carlos, on Desperate Housewives, said, “Me and the girls were talking about my mother’s death.” (May 2011) Carlos is a businessman of some sort, so a reasonably intelligent and educated man, we assume. The dumbos here are the writers who allow him to speak this way.
All of these people, real and fictional, should know better than to use “me” as the subject of a sentence or phrase. By their poor examples, they are teaching kids that this is OK. It’s NOT OK! Me am exasperated.
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