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* Ironically, most people these days will believe that answering the question \\\"Who\\\'s there?\\\" with \\\"I\\\" is incorrect grammar when the truth is that answering \\\"me\\\" is incorrect grammar. The same for \\\"it was me\\\" when correct grammar would have a person say \\\"it was I\\\". That which is accepted as correct grammar evolves over time with usage and habit. This makes using correct grammar sometimes appear to be this trope when it is actually an inversion of the trope. For example:
** In the movie \\\'\\\'Electric Dreams\\\'\\\', the computer entity correctly replies to \\\"who\\\'s there\\\" with \\\"I\\\".
It\\\'s true answering \\\"I\\\" to the first question is correct grammar in the sense of being short for \\\"I am\\\". However, the whole argument otherwise seems to be based on the \\\"it is I\\\" grammar rule, which is pretty much obsolete. Normal logic of the language without this weird special case rule has it that the \\\"me/I\\\" in \\\"It\\\'s me\\\" is in an object position (not exactly the object but close enough), and that implies the form \\\"me\\\" is correct. See for example the book Language Matters by Donna Jo Napoli. (Not sure what exactly it said about this, it\\\'s been a while, but I know there was something about how that rule is an old special-case one.)
It\\\'s ironic, of course, that the entry mentioned changing usage, as if \\\"it is I\\\" is the new standard. Or possibly as if the standard doesn\\\'t change even though the accepted standard does.
* Ironically, most people these days will believe that answering the question \\\"Who\\\'s there?\\\" with \\\"I\\\" is incorrect grammar when the truth is that answering \\\"me\\\" is incorrect grammar. The same for \\\"it was me\\\" when correct grammar would have a person say \\\"it was I\\\". That which is accepted as correct grammar evolves over time with usage and habit. This makes using correct grammar sometimes appear to be this trope when it is actually an inversion of the trope. For example:
** In the movie \\\'\\\'Electric Dreams\\\'\\\', the computer entity correctly replies to \\\"who\\\'s there\\\" with \\\"I\\\".
It\\\'s true answering \\\"I\\\" to the first question is correct grammar in the sense of being short for \\\"I am\\\". However, the whole argument otherwise seems to be based on the \\\"it is I\\\" grammar rule, which is pretty much obsolete. Normal logic of the language without this weird special case rule has it that the \\\"me/I\\\" in \\\"It\\\'s me\\\" is in an object position (not exactly the object but close enough), and that implies the form \\\"me\\\" is correct. See for example the book Language Matters by Donna Jo Napoli. (Not sure what exactly it said about this, it\\\'s been a while, but I know there was something about how that rule is an old special-case one.)
It\\\'s ironic, of course, that the entry mentioned changing usage, as if \\\"it is I\\\" is the new standard. Or possibly as if the standard doesn\\\'t change even though the accepted standard does.
