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minus-squareiknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.applinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·12 days ago“A friend and I are…”
minus-squareDicska@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·12 days agoAs a non-native speaker, it has always been weird to me, but this is still considered a normal, grammatically correct conversation: Who is buying glasses? Me. You still wouldn’t say “me am going to buy glasses”. While “I and a friend” seems to make more sense to me, considering all the weird stuff present in English, I’m fine letting this slip.
minus-squarefartographer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 days agoI chuckled. If you hadn’t posted that, I was gonna comment “me buy glasses.”
minus-squareAyutsu@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 days agoThat’s kind of an informal shorthand. The formal correct answer would be “I am.”
“A friend and I are…”
Me are going to buy glasses.
As a non-native speaker, it has always been weird to me, but this is still considered a normal, grammatically correct conversation:
You still wouldn’t say “me am going to buy glasses”.
While “I and a friend” seems to make more sense to me, considering all the weird stuff present in English, I’m fine letting this slip.
I was being ‘funny’.
I chuckled. If you hadn’t posted that, I was gonna comment “me buy glasses.”
That’s kind of an informal shorthand. The formal correct answer would be “I am.”