It looks so funny me being here again after all these years.

[diamondcutter]

It looks so funny me being here again after all these years.

This is just a sample sentence from a book named "Tips on Learning English for Chinese" by Lu Shuxiang. The English name of the book is my translation.

I wonder whether I could paraphrase the sentence like this:

It looks so funny that I am/was here again after all these years.
(I think both “am” and “was” are possible.)

 

[emsr2d2]

It's a terrible sentence. Starting with "It looks" just doesn't work with the rest of the sentence. What was the author trying to explain with that sentence?

 

[diamondcutter]

He just says in that position we can only use "me" not "I".

 

[emsr2d2]

He just says in that position we can only use "me" not "I".

He's almost right about that! You will hear people use "my" in that position too. He's certainly right that you can't say "... I being here again ...".

 

[diamondcutter]

What about using "is" instead of "looks" like this?

It is so funny me/my being here again after all these years.

Is this version correct?

 

[emsr2d2]

Yes.