"Mortified" - FGS it means embarrassed/humiliated

[originallyfromLA]

And not desperately upset as most of MN seem to think!

@stellarparallax thanks for that. I did not know that. I thought it just had connotations of bad shit, not that it actually meant bad shit.

If doesn't involve some sort of death, how can mortified be the correct word? ;)

Bare with me ...

And people tie themselves up in knots trying to be posh and are saying ‘myself’ ‘yourself’ etc. Often sales people

I'm Irish and the use of myself is definitely not seen as posh here. It's a quirk of hiberno-english that has its roots in the Irish language.

Expressions like "is it yourself that's in it" are sadly no longer heard as frequently as they used to be, presumably due to the influence of foreign TV.

In normal hiberno-english, there is a subtle difference between me/myself (usually pronounced mehself), your/yourself.

So (sorry), you might say "You can drop that off to myself or John" but you wouldn't say "you can drop that off to myself"

Himself is also used instead of names. "Is himself in?" if you want to speak to the male of the household you are most likely to want to speak to.

I also hate it when people get me and I mixed up eg. ‘Can you forward the paperwork to Bob and I’ 🤬🤬🤬🤬 You wouldn’t say ‘can you forward the paperwork to I’

That one drives me mad. I always feel it's people trying to sound posh or intelligent. Funnily enough, the converse of using me in place of I doesn't bother me at all.

Can someone explain to me why myself/yourself is wrong please? I'm always correcting DP when he does it (when he's trying to be posh) but I don't know why it's wrong
When is it appropriate to use them?

It is a reflexive pronoun to be used when the subject and object are the same ie - 'I will do it myself', 'you may hurt yourself'.

Generally, you would not use myself in a sentence that does not also contain another first-person pronoun such as 'I' 'me', or 'my'.

E.g. "I did this myself.

God, misuse of mortified drives me fucking bananas.

As does disinterested instead of uninterested.

Any form of admin or bureaucracy is now infested with irritating phrases: "if you could just sign this for me and return the form to myself".

In written form can I add complementary / complimentary?

And does anyone left on earth know the difference between imply and infer?

It's already been mentioned but effect/affect reallly annoys me!

Wonder / wander

I forgot about this thread! There are some great examples of awfulness here.

Another one I LOATHE is "I had a lay in." Trust me - you really, really didn't.

I saw owness on a thread recently...

As “the owness was on me to complete the task”

Took me a while to figure out!

Many posters invite us to "bare with me".

I prefer to keep my clothes on, thanks.

Principle vs principal. Dh recently changed job and became a principal xx. His new business card said he was a principle xx. He had a major battle to get it corrected as the person in charge insisted it should be principle. Half the principal xx's and yy's in the company are actually using principle as their job title on webpages and business cards!

Maybe he's misreading it and they're all 'principled x'
I have recently had a job title change to principal x... Or at least I hope that's what the letter says. I will check.

Wondering/wandering.

Everyone is either "mortified" or "fuming."

Shouldn't that be spelt 'fumming'?

Aaah, cross-posted. Again.

@Radioactivespider

The reason people say their DS is ASD, and not has ASD is because they don’t believe it is an illness, or a thing that you have in addition to who they are, they believe that it an integral part of who their child is. So my child has diabetes is fine, but my child is male, is 10, is ASD.

@StealthPolarBear - Maybe he's misreading it and they're all 'principled x'

This should actually be in pedants’ corner, surely?!

@AliceRR - This should actually be in pedants’ corner, surely?!

Why? We're in Chat. It's a chat about incorrect usage of words.

I do love a good fumm about something