Comments about ‘Roger Terry: Watch yer language: Just between you and I’

Nice! I think you should follow up with an article on the correct use of "myself."

I fear you are waging a long, uphill battle. "You and I" used as an object permeates all social strata. It's perceptive that you describe it as an "overcorrection." People have had it pounded into them for solong that "You and me" as a subject is nonstandard that they have swung to the other extreme and substituted "you and I" in all occurrences in order to appear proper. It's one of the most common grammatical errors and extremely irritating to those of us who know better (and only marks the perpetrators as posers who do not really understand grammar). Do people still teach the parts of speech? Do seventh graders still diagram sentences?

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Next, you can move on to the proper use of apostrophes.

Good luck in your hopeless quest!

I'm afraid you are waging an uphill battle. The error is pervasive in all ranks of society, to the point that those who use "you and me" correctly are often perceived as incorrect.

It's perceptive you describe the error as an "overcorrection." People have been told that "you and me" as a subject is nonstandard for so laong that they have shunned it entirely in all uses, even correct ones.

English only has three cases (subject/nominative, possessive/genitive, and objective) and, except for pronouns, really only two. How hard is it to keep them straight? Are languages with multiple cases (Latin has five, Russian six, and both have different endings for plurals) plagued with similar confusion and nonstandard usage? Would Caesar have ever said, "Per asperam ad astram" or "Et tibi, Brute"?

And in another quixotic campaign, people are reminded to construct "media" as a plural noun. As if the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, NBC, Time Warner, Viacom, Rush Limbaugh, Sports Illustrated, iTunes, YouTube, Fox, Townhall.com, GBTV, and the Daily Show all behaved and functioned as single unified entity with common purpose. Well, never mind.

And never start a sentence with a conjunction.

Or sentence fragments.