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To the editor:
Allow me, please, to introduce the formation of The Society for the Preservation of the Me, open to all who have reverence for our language and a respect for its proper useage.
The accelerating slaughter of the Me has become so widespread that the (Population of this useful species has been decimated.
Even now, one rarely sees or hears the once-common Me. In just a few short years, the Me population has dwindled to the point that the species no longer is able to propagate and perpetuate itself without outside aid.
It is a monstrous irony that the principal perpetrators of this unconscionable deed are among the most visible and respected members of our society. These people never learned, or have forgotten, that the object of a preposition, as the grammar books put it when there were such books, must be in the accusative — as in “like me,” “to John and me” and “for Mary and me.”
Unfamiliarity with the proper place of the Me in our langauge has led more and more people to fear and, thus, to kill the Me. Then, faced with a troublesome gap of their own making, they seek replacements.
Some of the offenders fall back on the I — as in “to John and I,” and “for Mary and I” — forgetting that the I thrives only in the nominative environment, as it was known — as
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