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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: "It is me" vs. "It is I"
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In article <32906C22.F54@rrq.gouv.qc.ca>,
Benoit Evans  <benoit.evans@rrq.gouv.qc.ca> wrote:
>Loren Petrich wrote:

>>         I have another interpretation: The oblique form, "me" is an
>> emphatic form, used to point something out (namely, oneself).

>I agree with you. Although "me" is usually an object pronoun, it is also 
>the TONIC form of the subject pronoun "I". That is why children in a 
>group, for example, have two perfectly good answers to the question "who 
>wants candy?":

>1. I do! I do!
>2. Me! Me!

>The non-emphatic possibility, a simple "I, I", is never heard.

	In the ST:TOS episode "Devil in the Dark", the Horta, after its 
first mind-meld with Mr. Spock, etches these words:

NO KILL I

Half-understood English would more likely be something like

NO KILL ME

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