In elementary school, I vividly remember a time where on my paper I wrote “Me and my friend Matt are gonna hang out on Friday for my birthday”. This sentence was for a writing on what we are expecting or planning to do this upcoming weekend. I remember my teacher circling the word “gonna” letting me know this wasn’t a word. Next, she had underlined “Me and my friend Matt”, letting me know the correct form of this sentence was My friend Matt and I are going to hang out this Friday”. This was a shock to me because this was everyday vocab for myself. Even though I was discouraged as a young boy, and influenced by my mistake letting my friends know they were talking “wrong” as well, I eventually grew out of this, and talked loosely In descriptivism