In which having German as a first language helps Amy speak prescriptively correct English

[pne]

Amy and I were just playing with Playmobil figures and I sat one of them at a table with a tin of sausages. I had him ask, "Who wants to eat sausages with me?"

And Amy holds another figure up and says, "I!"

That amused me so much that I had to write a journal entry about it.

(I think your average native English speaker would be more likely to have said, "Me!".)

Comments

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I would never say "I" in such a context unless it were followed by "do".

[pne.livejournal.com]

Oh, quite -- arguably, saying "I" in such a context is even incorrect, in the sense that it's something few people would say spontaneously except through deliberately affecting prescriptivist grammar. That is, it's not the form that evolved naturally (or something like that).