Is it, "He's crazier than me" or "He's crazier than I"?

[LaydeeBug]

I would love it if some DUers could help me settle a grammatical fight. :hi:

[DarkTirade]

1. I.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

2. "He's crazier than I am."

So, to answer your question: neither.

:evilgrin:

[Deja Q]

3. "He's crazier than I am"

Which is hard to come by...

[LeftyFingerPop]

4. Jello.

[Deja Q]

6. Jello Pudding Pops. And Vaseline.

:yoiks:

[petronius]

5. "I" - but why make it a comparison? Just say "that dude is batshit insane."

Leave the question of your own crazitude off the table...

:)

[JVS]

11. That dude is batshit insaner than I

[Jamastiene]

7. I

The way to look at it to tell which one is right would be to say the sentence both ways and add the verbs in both:

He's crazier than me am.
or
He's crazier than I am.

That makes the right way more obvious in cases like this.

[pokerfan]

8. copulative verbs?

http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxitsmev.html">"It's me" vs "It is I"

[rlev1223]

9. In English --

it's the subject "I" as in ".... than I am."

But in French it's the object "me."
".... que moi."


Unless me am wrong.

[old mark]

19. Or unless me am French.....nt

[DarkTirade]

20. You is totally correctically.

[C-Mac]

22. ha. very good.

It'd save everyone a bit of trouble if people would just not drop the "am." It isn't that difficult and it helps fill the pretentious void. Or you could just use "me" as the third-person nickname for yourself and then it's fine. He's crazier than Me.

[JVS]

10. I

[coyotespaw]

12. He's a Douchebag

[JVS]

13. he sux.

[astral]

14. I'm crazier than him.

[Iggo]

16. I'm crazier than he (is).

Heil Grammar!

[Writer]

15. I just say, "He's a crazy mother fucker."

Thus eliminating the grammatical quandary.

[grannylib]

17. Glad to see so many who know their grammar! Yes, it's "I"

:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

18. I am.

What you want to do is try the sentence without the 'he'. You wouldn't say 'me crazy', you'd say 'I am crazy' so, therefore, he's crazier than I am.

And he is, too.

Honest.

:hi:

[fishwax]

21. either one is acceptable

However, the use of "me" is much more likely to draw objection than is the use of "I," so in formal writing it would be probably be advisable to use the latter.

The distinction hinges on whether one treats "than" as a conjunction (in which case a verb is required both before and after, and therefore the subject "I" must be used: "crazier than I (am)") or whether one treats "than" as a preposition (in which case you can use "me" as the object of the preposition).

"Than" has been used as a preposition for the last 500 years or so (and by some of our best writers) and nobody objected until the late 18th century. That is when Robert Lowth--yes, the same Robert Lowth who gave us that bullshit rule about ending sentences with a preposition--declared that "than" must always be a conjunction. That declaration has since become widely (though not universally) adopted.

[Iggo]

23. You just uh-sploded my head.

I hope you are happy. I really do.

:hi: