How to decipher if someone is hoity-toity.

I'm not a very good judge of character. There's one surefire way, however, to determine if someone is hoity-toity.

We all know that me is a pronoun used as an object. For example, "Would you like to come to lunch with me?" or "Please give me the book." Why, then, do people commonly use I as an object when, clearly, it functions as a subject? For example, "I sleep eight hours a night."

Well, it's because they're hoity-toity. They think they're special, but they're really not. They're bright enough to use me only when it's by itself. When you throw another noun into the mix—typically someone else's name—they get confused. They figure "I'm confused. I don't have a clue what I'm doing. I may as well sound like I know what I'm talking about, and me can't be right, so I'll just use I." For example, "Do you want to go to a movie with Jimbob and I tonight?" They can handle just the pronoun, but Jimbob really screws things up.

So, if you really want to impress I—er, me—keep your pronouns straight.