Comments on: A Girl Like I

By: Maeve Maddox

Maeve Maddox — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:01:59 +0000

Tony,
Yes, we have moles over here. I have them so bad this summer that to walk in my garden is like walking on moist sponges.

As for “mole hole,” Rod’s comment inspired this DWT post:

http://www.dailywritingtips.co.....-molehill/

By: Tony Hearn

Tony Hearn — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:58:54 +0000

‘Making a mountain out of a mole hill’ is what we say here in England. That’s what we call the little excavations the creatures leave in lawns and fields. (Do you have moles Stateside?)

As to ‘It is I/me’: whatever the purists say, current idiomatic English on both sides of the Atlantic is ‘It is me’, or, more likely, ‘It’s me’. Here ‘me’ is what grammarians call a ‘disjunctive pronoun’ if you want to impress/bore your audience. Similarly ‘It’s/ was her/us/them’. I remember being taught the propriety of ‘It is I’ at school, and I know that Judas says ‘Is it I, Lord?, at the last supper, but nowadays this sounds, surely, pretentious or pompous or both, and certainly unidiomatic.

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:00:19 +0000

Is it me? or these guys make a mountain out of a mole hole

By: Maeve

Maeve — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:14:31 +0000

I did a post on the “It is I/It is me” issue not too long ago:

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/its-me-vs-it-is-i/

By: Cassie Tuttle

Cassie Tuttle — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:09:46 +0000

Chad! Love that old joke – I’d forgotten about that one.

Oh, Brad K., I appreciate your thoughts. But I didn’t mean for it to be a difficult question.

In everyday use, for example, when I leave a voice message for my significant other on his cell phone, I wonder if it’s grammatically correct to say, “Hi, it’s me.” (Or is the other construction grammatically correct: “Hi, it is I.”?)

Of course, the earth isn’t going to stop rotating if I don’t leave a grammatically correct phone message for my SO. LOL! I’m just curious about this one.