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OnHerSolidFoundations · 2024-04-10T07:21:16+00:00

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 🙈🙈🙈

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/04/2024 12:53

No, I'd never take this up with train staff, not least because they are probably following a script. Just heard the current one say 'We are arriving into Lancaster' but there's another lost cause.

CelesteCunningham · 10/04/2024 12:57

Badburyrings · 10/04/2024 12:49

Oh I remember this in traitors, one evening during the round table bit everyone was at it with the "myself" "yourself" etc.. I don't know how I kept watching to be honest!

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The best bit about Traitors was the promotion of "amn't".

MrMucker · 10/04/2024 13:43

Yeah sometimes it can piss myself off too.

CheapThrillsMeanNothing · 10/04/2024 13:47

I think the word 'ME' will become redundant in the English language at this rate.
The number of time 'myself' is written when it should be 'me' is shocking, not just on this forum but on at least 3 others I use.
It really grates along with 'gotten' when you're not an American.

CelesteCunningham · 10/04/2024 13:51

It really grates along with 'gotten' when you're not an American.

It's not just Americans who use gotten.

cupidsabsolutepsyche · 10/04/2024 13:51

ArcticBells · 10/04/2024 09:23

"From myself and the train crew"

I'm on a train, just laughed out loud at this and thought 'now that's just silly'.

Then those very same words came floating through the air on my train 😂😭

BathshebaEverdene1 · 10/04/2024 13:52

" gotten" is perfectly fine grammatically.
Forget/forgot/forgotten
Get/got/ gotten
plenty of English speakers from the UK say it. From the West Counrty of England 0for example.
It cannot be compared to the misuse of the reflexive pronoun.
That's not even an "Americanism" it's just ....dreadful.

cupidsabsolutepsyche · 10/04/2024 13:53

I meant to quote @Candleabra there, on behalf of myself, I apologise

Vitriolinsanity · 10/04/2024 13:56

Every. Single. policeman being interviewed:

"We would ask anyone with information to contact ourselves"

SiobhanSharpe · 10/04/2024 14:01

@BathshebaEverdene1
“A verb is a being, doing or having word,” according to my former English teachers …
(Pedants’ corner habituée.)

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 10/04/2024 14:06

Immemorialelms · 10/04/2024 09:02

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.

Hmm. Surely should be "they" are our general manager?

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OnHerSolidFoundations · 10/04/2024 14:23

Mary7241 · 10/04/2024 08:33

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

Exactly! It's so cringey.

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OnHerSolidFoundations · 10/04/2024 14:23

amindatwork · 10/04/2024 08:36

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

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OnHerSolidFoundations · 10/04/2024 14:24

blueshoes · 10/04/2024 08:45

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

Yup.

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OnHerSolidFoundations · 10/04/2024 14:25

TheChippendenSpook · 10/04/2024 08:51

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

No. It shouldn't.

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whywonttheyeattheirfood · 10/04/2024 15:19

It's the written equivalent of a posh telephone voice. People trying to sound formal and educated when they just sound daft instead 😂

MrsScrubbingbrush · 10/04/2024 15:32

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 10/04/2024 12:16

@unnumber is right, of course, that languages change all the time and not always in a logical way. As a new season of Masterchef is now under way, John Torode is once again saying 'You've got to impress Gregg and I'. No, John, take Gregg out of that sentence - or, ideally, right out of the programme - and you'd see that's wrong. 'You've got to impress me' is what you would be left with. That's probably a lost cause now.

Totally agree. My DP is getting fed up with me shouting at the TV when John Torode says " You'll be cooking for Gregg and I"

TheBerry · 11/04/2024 08:32

BathshebaEverdene1 · 10/04/2024 09:21

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"....

You mean you corrected someone on the phone?

YeahComeOnThen · 11/04/2024 08:39

BathshebaEverdene1 · 10/04/2024 09:21

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"....

@BathshebaEverdene1

well, that was very rude of you.

Growlybear83 · 11/04/2024 08:52

I find the reference to 'meet with' far more irritating. In UK English you meet someone, not meet with them.

Bangolads · 11/04/2024 08:53

So many individuals on here pertaining to be linguistic wizards yet so many of you ignoring the evolution of language. Language evolves, currently faster than ever, you understand the sentence, there is no problem. Words were created as a means of communication not as a stick to beat people with. If you’d like to learn more about this I suggest Chaucer as a good starting point and a good therapist as to why you let so many things bother you and your endless need to feel better than everyone else. Good luck!

ivs · 11/04/2024 08:55

Lanawashington · 10/04/2024 08:54

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'

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Thats how I work it out, removing the other person

CelesteCunningham · 11/04/2024 08:58

Growlybear83 · 11/04/2024 08:52

I find the reference to 'meet with' far more irritating. In UK English you meet someone, not meet with them.

@ASighMadeOfStone discussed this upthread and I'm with her on this one - meet and meet with are subtly different for me.

I'd meet a friend for coffee, but meet with a colleague to work on a project.

KimberleyClark · 11/04/2024 09:04

Bangolads · 11/04/2024 08:53

So many individuals on here pertaining to be linguistic wizards yet so many of you ignoring the evolution of language. Language evolves, currently faster than ever, you understand the sentence, there is no problem. Words were created as a means of communication not as a stick to beat people with. If you’d like to learn more about this I suggest Chaucer as a good starting point and a good therapist as to why you let so many things bother you and your endless need to feel better than everyone else. Good luck!

You obviously don’t know what “pertaining” means. That word makes no sense in the context of your sentence.

DianaTaverner · 11/04/2024 09:44

KimberleyClark · 11/04/2024 09:04

You obviously don’t know what “pertaining” means. That word makes no sense in the context of your sentence.

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Language is clearly evolving faster for her than for us hidebound lesser mortals.