Myself and My colleague will meet with you....

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FFS please stop using "myself " in emails!

Just remove your colleague's name from the sentence and see how stupid you sound...

"Myself will meet with you"

There see! It's not hard. The word you are looking for is "I"

I WILL MEET WITH YOU

Ffs. You work in communications
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I think it's the insistence that 'I' is a dirty word at secondary school that does it. 'No writing in the first person'. If you're talking about yourself, then first person is appropriate.

As a linguistics teacher I’ve chatted loads about this! It’s a HUGE thing on reality tv in particular and in my mega geeky circles Traitors raised a lot of hackles 😂😂
We concluded it’s an effort to sound more authoritative which ironically does exactly the opposite

This drives me insane! It's constant. Even from educated people senior to me at work. One who has an English degree!

I was surprised when watching Interior Design Masters that Michelle Ogundehin, a magazine editor no less, says would of or should of rather than have.
I actually wound the programme back to check it wasn't my hearing.

I loved Traitors but spent a lot of time muttering "just ME!! You!!" at the telly 😂

I hear it in Posh Spice's voice and accent "Myself and David ..."

I'm glad it wasn't just me

I think most people say would’ve / should’ve which sounds like would of in a lot of accents. It’s why people get confused when they write it down.

In that context, surely it should be 'me and my colleague...?'

And myself 😌

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It should be 'my colleague and I'. As Op says, if you remove the other person from the sentence it still has to make sense. You wouldn't say 'me will meet with you'

A lot of people think 'myself' is the formal version of 'me.' In my first office job people who felt the need to put me in my place because I'd been to uni used to incorrectly correct my emails and this was their prime target l, so I now totally overreact to it and make all sorts of unfair assumptions about people.

Really it's a consequence of inadequate teaching and a not unreasonable fear of being thought to be thick by grammar snobs. I'm now fighting not to become one of those grammar snobs myself (note correct usage). I actually work with teachers who misuse 'myself' - the kids don't stand a chance and we might as well give up and accept language changes with usage.

My colleague and I will meet with you.

Again, take out the other person and see if it works...

Me will meet with you.

I will meet with you.

It's my colleague and I.

Me is for the object of the sentence.

He will meet me.

I will meet you

So much easier to say 'We will meet with you..' or 'I've arranged the meeting for Tuesday at 9.30am. We will be joined by Bethany, our General Manager'.

She didn't say "would of".
She said "would've" using the contracted weak form schwa sound that's used in connected speech, and which sounds more similar to "of" than to a full /a/ vowel in "have".
That's how the grammar mistake of writing "of" instead of "have" was born. People hearing the contracted form and presuming it was "of" when it wasn't.

Seeing as it’s a grammar one,
“…one of whom has”.

Absolutely.

My colleague and I…

I have noticed a trend for people not using me at all in similar sentences, even when it’s correct. I assume it stems from being corrected at school - so “Me and Gary are going into town” corrected to “Gary and I are going into town”
But now it’s over corrected to Myself and Gary

But “myself” also used in “Gary asked myself to come into town” instead of me

I've arranged the meeting for Tuesday at 9.30am. We will be joined by Bethany, our General Manager'.

Myself has arranged the meeting for Tuesday with theyselves. Yourself and myself will be joined by Bethany; her is our General Manager. See, much better.

Oops yeah! I did know that really!

I did go into one once on the phone about how inappropriate the reflexive pronoun was in this case. Was met with a sickly silence. ..

I think people use it to sound well.spoken or something. A bit like insisting that it's,always " and I"....

Seeing as it’s a grammar one,
“…one of whom has”.

@Maelil01 haha yes I thought this as I pressed post, not had my morning coffee yet. Myself should of known better 😉.

"From myself and the train crew"

Not to mention starting with “On behalf of myself..” which is announced regularly on my train.