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"Do you mean he is taller than me am?" sarcastically barked Dr. Martin Rosenberg, my high school English teacher, to one of the students in our class. The student actually said, "He is taller than me," but Rosenberg was ridiculing the student's grammar. The subject of the elliptical (or understood) verb "am" must be in the subjective case. Thus, the correct form of the sentence is: He is taller than I.
This correction/dressing down of a student, that occasionally included me, occurred during my attendance at North Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin High School in the early '50s. Franklin was predominantly black;...
Black Opportunity Destruction
The fact that I've typed the words Hip-Hop means that one of our esteemed left leaning experts on the subject's minions have already jump to the conclusion that, Oh! here we go they're blaming Hip-Hop again.
When in fact I'm not, you could tell by listening to some of the lyrics that somebody got their hands on a dictionary and thesaurus(spell check).
However my problem is with the emulation of the gangster lifestyle, for your rap album to sell more than Jay-z's or Biggie Smalls you have to go to jail first instead of going to school that way you can come out and wear your...