me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the … - Ambrose Bierce

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I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.

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me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.

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