I feel like in the first one, there's an implied "it's" at the beginning
The implied "it's" makes "you and I" a compound predicate nominative, so it needs to be in the nominative case. (By the way, that also makes "walking" a participle, not a gerund, since it's acting as an adjective. ^_^)
I think it is a dialect thing -- the "Just ______, doing ____" construction is used more often in informal settings, so it sounds weird when the rules of formal English are imposed upon it.
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Date: 2007-04-29 03:40 am (UTC)The implied "it's" makes "you and I" a compound predicate nominative, so it needs to be in the nominative case. (By the way, that also makes "walking" a participle, not a gerund, since it's acting as an adjective. ^_^)
I think it is a dialect thing -- the "Just ______, doing ____" construction is used more often in informal settings, so it sounds weird when the rules of formal English are imposed upon it.