Being a Chemist Isn’t an Excuse
He should still get basic grammar correct! First line, in case you don’t notice it [emphasis is mine]. I included the whole paragraph so you can click the links in case you’re interested in the chemistry…
Cinema air might just smell like stale popcorn to you and I, but chemists have found that the volatile compounds floating around can tell them how shocking a film is. For this work they’ve just been given the 2021 chemistry Ig Nobel prize – the awards that bill themselves as first making you laugh then think – by none other than 2001 chemistry Nobel laurate Barry Sharpless.
http://click.rsc.org/rsps/m/iKBaGayEjwJlDhe6gEddGLsISIZBisTaatFfkmzjjhM
The trick to getting compound prepositional objects correct is to take out the objects one at a time and see how the construction sounds. The writer has “to you and I” so take out the “and I” and you get “to you,” which sounds fine. But take out the “you” and you get “to I” which is easy to see as incorrect.
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