word order - Should personal pronouns always be placed at the end of a list?





“My friends and I” vs. “My friends and me” vs. “Me and my friends”
Is naming the first person last proper grammar or just proper manners?
“Julio and I” vs “I and Julio”



Today I made a post on Facebook in which I copied a conversation from somewhere else. To preface my post, I wrote:



A conversation between me and John:



There were a number of comments on my use of pronouns, but the one I am most interested in was on the word order. One commentator said that the personal pronoun must always come last. I admit that I was raised to always use the personal pronoun last and simply did not type what I felt was correct, but I honestly don't know whether what I was raised with was correct. So,


Should you always place the personal pronoun last in a list? If so, why?




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