A question about site policy

*sigh* 

so, sorry, no prize. The correct form is still

"Me sitting at a table of our restaurant"

What we have here is now an unstated preposition, since the pronoun is the object of a preposition it cannot also be the subject of a verb.

So another way of putting the caption would be to add in the unstated preposition: "A photograph of BaldJean and me sitting at a table of our restaurant" where "BaldJean and me" would be the object of the preposition "of" because clearly that is what it is, a photograph of you. 

As Greg (Logan) says, they've got voted "Related" in Eclectic Team and I have respect for their final decision.

EDIT: And Dean, sorry for my poor (grammar-broken) Engrish. 

The missus also wonders whether we would all be better off getting a life. I did try to explain to her that these things are important, but, there we go.

The missus also wonders whether someone should make an application for me to be evaluated for Krautrock, or failing that related to some form of German thingy, on the basis that I was born in Germany (Dad was in the army), and that I used to sing a bit, but am now an ageing rocker.

Personally, I think she could be on to something!

Alas I failed English language O level back in 1972 with a grade so low I must have also managed to misspell my own name at the top of the examination paper, at the time someone joked that I could have achieved a better grade if I had left the paper blank. My old Headmaster was less charitable, he said I would never achieve anything in life with such a poor understanding of the written word and my progress to A levels was thus curtailed. Having discovered later that a mild form of dyslexia was a contributory factor in the learning difficulties I encountered during my school days, I endeavoured to teach myself at my own pace, to pursue higher education and attain a degree, spurred on with the desire to prove my Headmaster wrong and achieve something in life without a piece of paper that proclaims that I can write English in a goodly fashion. Some forty years later I am still learning and while I have yet to master the act of tying shoe laces, I have taught myself to approach grammar as a technical problem to be analysed and solved following logical rules. 

My missus, who is an English teacher at a Sixth-form college, occasionally comes to me for advice on grammar. Last night while she was sat marking students work, it was on the use of "practice" and "practise" - and while I instinctively knew the difference ("I practise my piano practice.") I could not immediately explain why, however analysing that example reveals the answer - practise is a verb, practice is a noun - and that sounds like a mathematical rule to me so I double-checked that with "licence" and "license" and with "advice" and "advise" - low and behold - the rule holds true. QED.

I know I've come across as a grammar-bully here, ready to pounce upon every minor transgression with the fervour of a rabid pedant, and I can only apologise for that, it is never my intent to do that. Using colloquial grammar in a post is nothing to be critical of, we all do it - I will continue to use the erroneous phrase "baited breath" even though Peter has corrected me on that (the correct term is "abated breath") because I like the pun, (think angler fish) and whenever I've used it here my words were indeed intended as "bait". When people misuse you're and your or there, their and they're I happily ignore it and move on - we all know what the person meant, there is no ambiguity or cause for confusion. 

Friede's grammar in her signature affects me differently, (and again, I apologise to Friede for perpetuating this argument), it is a permanent statement that I see every time she posts and it rankles me that someone with a mathematically keen mind such as hers would let such a common misuse of grammar mark each post she makes.

In recompense for my unreasonable behaviour last night I have volunteered to add Atlantis into Prog Related if the Admins vote to accept them. This of course assumes that I have read Keishiro's comment correctly, and if I haven't then I will take it upon myself to propose them on Friede's behalf.

[And that is something else that irks me every time someone posts a "why are xxxx not here" post, (not withstanding that few ever read the PR submission guidelines that can be found atop the Forum Home Page), with over 100 Special Collaborators on this site no one ever seems to ask any of them to propose a band for Prog Related on their behalf.]

...and no, I don't have a life. This is my life, albeit only a part time one as it doesn't pay the mortgage.

(get well soon Steve, and we'd love to see you back on a team here)