Just Between You and I: Conjunctive Relief for Pronoun Confusion

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A smart fellow named Jim Abernathy, whom I do not know personally, posted on Facebook:

"Meanwhile, my main grammatical pet peeve remains the "between he and I" variety, with it's many iterations. Many people seem to consider the subjective case pronouns to be inherently more elegant or correct than the objective case, and apparently have no idea how to choose between them.

The most frequent version of this is the "for We the People" strain. This past Fall, the Alaska Republican Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka became my grammatical hero when I heard her say "for Us the People" on Mark Levin's show. The allusion to the Constitution's preamble was still quite clear, and she recognized that she didn't have to commit a grammatical atrocity to make it! Rare discernment, these days."

To which I replied:

"And I would like to add here that there is a simple way for people to always get it right, and that is to remove the conjunction ("and" or "or") and it will become immediately clear what you should say. It only takes a millisecond to go through that exercise, thus the talking heads on television, radio and podcasts have no excuse for butchering the language. Example: "Send it to him and me" or "Send it to him and I." If you are on the verge of uttering the latter, simply remove the conjunction "and" and see if "Send it to I" sounds right. If not, then say "Send it to him and me." But if "Send it to I" DOES sound right to you, still, don't say it; head straight to HR, resign your position, and find a job—such as an English teacher in the public school system— where the proper use of the English language does not matter."