I love Lady GaGa as much as the next sex-positive pseudo-intellectual who enjoys weird for weird’s sake, but this grammar error has been bugging me for months now:
“You and me could write a bad romance” is incorrect. It should be “You and I could write a bad romance.”
To decide whether to use “me” or “I” (or any other inflected pronoun, be it he/him, she/her, we/us, they/them), split the sentence into two and it shouldn’t be hard to figure out which one works. Try this:
You could write a bad romance.
Me could write a bad romance.
The second doesn’t work, does it?
I could write a bad romance.
That one actually makes sense, and that is how we know that the correct form is, “You and I could write a bad romance.”
It even sounds better, IMO. That “I” is a stronger vowel sound than “me” to use in a song line. Sing it with me now:
I want your lovin’
and I want your revenge
you and I could write a bad romance!
Am I alone in thinking it sounds better with correct grammar? Or am I just drunk?
#1 by Lily Kowallec on April 19, 2012 - 12:18 PM
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#2 by alysonmiers on April 19, 2012 - 12:48 PM
And now I get to play the fun game of, “How did this comment make it through the spam filter?”