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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 <petrichE143GI.E68@netcom.com>,
Loren Petrich <petrich@netcom.com> wrote:

>>>         I have another interpretation: The oblique form, "me" is an
>>> emphatic form, ... [agreement with me]

>	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

	I also recall that some pidgins that use English vocabulary rather
heavily use "mi" as their 1st-person-singular pronoun, clearly using "me"
instead of "I". 

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