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

[OnHerSolidFoundations]

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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’Please return the questionnaire to myself’.

Unless you are talking to yourself, it’s ME!

Except when the word "and" comes before it, then it's "me" that is the dirty word.

Given the prevalence of sentences like "she gave that to dh and I" or "she came with dh and I", misuse of "I" is much more prevalent than misuse of "myself"

I agree. "Meet with" has a mood of purpose, it's almost a contraction of "have a meeting with" with an unspoken side order of "in order to".
"Meet" is more accidental or incidental, or something you'd use to describe a rendezvous before you go onto together to the main event.

The fine distinction adds to the depth of the language.

I haven't seen traitors but amn't is much more logical than aren't when referring to yourself. Are the characters using "amn't" Irish or of Irish descent as amn't is normal in Hiberno-English?

I shout at the TV too whenever anyone misuses someone and I.

Yes, gotten is standard in Hiberno-English. It's a perfectly sensible word.

Not necessarily. The reflexive pronoun also has its place in Hiberno-English. It's not used willy nilly as a substitute for I or me but would be appropriate in certain sentence structures in place of I or me. It would be less formal than I or me, rather than more formal.

Hiberno-English gives rise to wonderful sentences such as "Is it yourself that's in it?" which basically means hello when you're surprised to see someone.

Yes ok we know she meant purporting

I can't remember now! He may have been Scottish but there were some Irish/Irish descent contestants too.

@OnHerSolidFoundations sorry but what is all this shite about! I have never heard of reflexive pronouns but I do know grammar. with lots of love from me, myself and I!!! ps i do remember the days of inst and ult though!!! why are people starting to push for this garbage? the problem with would've and could've is that people have never been taught which letters have been replaced by the apostrophe! that used to be drilled into us at school. why is "I" classed as a dirty word nowadays??

Really sorry, just check and I did this in a work email yesterday (I'm dyslexic/have terrible grammar &didn't realise this was incorrect)

Satire or just an absolute classic of the genre?

Exactly!

I find it particularly irritating when the colleague in question, creates content for public consumption. It's the main purpose of their role!

If you're dyslexic then fair enough!

Myself too!! Joke 🙄 It became one of my pet peeves after that and I began noticing it everywhere. Loved Harry, but he started them all off! As others have said, take the other person out of the sentence and select, 'I', 'me' or 'you'. I think people believe it sounds more formal. It doesn't! 😂

I know this was 2 days ago, and I absolutely HAVE NOT rtft, but I needed to comment and agree.

The misuse of "myself" is my biggest pet peeve when it comes to grammar.

Update: my bf just wrote an email saying, "we sent payment to yourselves..."

Should I break up with him?

Definitely a LTB

I raise you 'please may you'. As used by a colleague asking the rest of the team to do something. 'Please may you complete your time sheets' or 'please may you send me agenda items'. NO NO NO!

Me will meet you there…. Nope