"Me and my father": is it Yo y mi padre?

[Rusty]

Thou speakest aright. Blessed be thy day.

[JPablo]

Most thankful of thy corrections!

[pineapplegal]

Yes, the correct English is to say, "My father and I."
But it was informal for a caption under a photo. The viewer would be seeing me on the left and my dad on the right, so logistically using the widely used and accepted, "Me and my father," (sort of a slang/informal version) would be fine.

Thanks for the follow up posts.

[wrholt]

Originally Posted by pineapplegal

Yes, the correct English is to say, "My father and I."
But it was informal for a caption under a photo. The viewer would be seeing me on the left and my dad on the right, so logistically using the widely used and accepted, "Me and my father," (sort of a slang/informal version) would be fine.

Thanks for the follow up posts.

In the absence of context, we forum participants tend to favor/focus on standard usage. As you observe, within a particular context pragmatic considerations can override the norms of standard usage when the degree of formality of the context would normally require observing standard usage norms.

I've just realized that in the discussion most of us who responded didn't notice or didn't pay attention to the fact that you stated that the translation was for a photo caption.

I agree that for a photo caption, particular in an informal context, using "me and my father" or "me, my father" to match the left-to-right positioning of individuals within the image makes more sense than the formally-correct "my father and me". In this case translating the caption into Spanish as "yo y mi padre" could also be acceptable because of the same pragmatic considerations.

[JPablo]

Yes, yes..., providing we are not writing Arabic... but the obvious thing is that your father would look slightly older than you, (just a couple of decades or so), and I have to admit that sometimes mother and daughter look like two peas in a pod...