Path: news.ccsf.jp!shiino.jp!jindaiji.chofu.tokyo.jp!gcd.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!122.1.6.154!yynet.tama.tokyo.jp!nf.asahi-net.or.jp!jpix!newsfeed2.kddnet.ad.jp!newsfeed2.kddnet.ad.jp!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: kdammers@hotmail.com Newsgroups: fj.sci.lang.english Subject: accusative pronouns in the nominative Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 05:01:04 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 8 Message-ID: <87edef53-4834-465c-b764-b424b105090b@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 211.225.37.47 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1199192465 8555 127.0.0.1 (1 Jan 2008 13:01:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 13:01:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=211.225.37.47; posting-account=lY9PfAkAAACl8Qxl5WBQQflfRIYtVbR- User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; AhnLab:APG=1^-1083636289^21;),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.sci.lang.english:248 In informal, ungrammatical but native AE, one can hear "Me and her" or "Her and me" * as the subject (e.g., "Her and me went home."). On the other hand, "Me" or "Her" as the exclusive subject is apparently "impossible" for the native AE speaker. Why is this so? What is the difference between a single pronoun and two? What about "Me or her"? It also seems to be possible. *Also "Me and she" and maybe "She and me"