It makes perfect sense to me. When I was in school parents and teachers reminded us over and over: "Don't say 'Jimmy and me are going to the store!' Say, 'Jimmy and I'." No one explained the finer points of choosing a pronoun, though. For years I thought that there was some rule that whenever one refered to oneself along with someone else, one must always use "I" and never "me."
So one should say, "Jimmy and I are going." "She gave it to Jimmy and I" is also correct. But what does one do with a sentence like "Ask Jimmy or I?" That just sounds wrong. "Ask Jimmy or me" violates the never-say-me rule, though. The best alternative to this damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't sentence is, "Ask Jimmy or myself."
You often hear people follow that rule. Thousands of Americans can't be wrong. ;)
Kathy
Rules: When I went to high-school there were a lot of kids that just didn't understand rules. Rules of English. We started having English (rules) in the 5th grade and they were repeated every year until I got out of high school. In each subsequent grade they added only a few rules to the previous rules and drilled the previous years' rules into you. Those who made A's remembered and followed the rules. The others had their heads somewhere else. Dee Dee
