to wonder why people have stopped using the word 'me'?

[maybenow]

I am dying a little bit inside everytime somebody writing on here or speaking on tv or even in business emails says 'she came over to talk to myself and my partner' or 'please email myself' or soooo many other examples.

What has become wrong with the word 'me'? Why does it seem that the whole world is slowly moving over to using myself instead of me?

I am not usually very pedantic about language, it evolves, fair enough, and my own spelling and grammar can be dodgy when typing quickly in an informal situation but this one for some reason really gets me - myself is longer to write than me!

Betty is going shopping with me.

Hands off Betty!

DH is guilty of thinking that "you was" is correct.
he'd never been told differently till I came along, and he doesn't believe me.

Nickel, I hope the last time you heard him say that was when you was filing for divorce...

It's not as bad as they horrible Americanism "this is she" when answering the phone. Said really smuggly too. Bleuughh.

(someones now going to come on and say it is accurate. I don't care. It is horrid)

Mymooncup
aw, poor DH. He doesn't know - no one told him! He said to me "if you're right and I'm saying it wrong, then how come no one else has ever corrected me, and how come everyone else says it?" (immediately followed by someone else in the vicinity saying it exactly the same way as him!)
:( poor DH is uneducated. and living in an area where the digraph "th" doesn't exist.

I hate it. So often used by educated people as well - I think they think it is the intelligent/literate version of 'me' when actually it is stupid and illiterate.

I have a friend with a good English degree from a good university that says, 'I done'. Regularly. Maked me cringe with embarrassment for her.

The annoying thing my eldest (15) currently does is use an eff sount instead of a th sound such as 'free' instead of 'three', 'I fink', 'mafs' etc. Drives me mad and not sure why she does it. Any ideas wise ones?

Where do you live Nickel?

Feck off the lot of you. Betty is my friend and she is going shopping with ME.

(Why aren't your good selves all in pedants' corner)

Another think I have noticed, slightly off thread, is that people have become incapable of saying "yes". First noticed this in the programme "The Good Wife" and it bacame all I could hear, for example, "Do you want a cup of tea"? "I do" or "Are you ready"? "I am".

My sister is a great fan of the programme and unfortunately I might have told her about this and now she can't watch the programme without trying to see if somebody can just say "YES"

became, even

oh it's so SOOTHING to read that other people are as pedantic as me. (or should that be 'as I am'? )

fizzy what you describe is teen-speak. Mine do the 'eff' sound and also the glottal stop. I turn into a shrieking banshee, but it makes no difference... I just assume that it will sink in one day.

I hope so. Makes her sound really fick

My youngest (13yo, female, white) has taken to calling me 'blud' from time to time.

Its because people who aren't very confident or well educated have been brainwashed by other not terribly well-educated people to think that putting jargon or official-sounding language into conversation makes them sound more professional or impressive. It doesn't, it just makes them sound like robots who've swallowed a call centre manual. But it is very prevalent. "Myself" anad "yourself" in this context are also generally a hallmark of the self-important jobsworth who parrots the company line and can't respond to simple questions without a meltdown.

Fizzy - south east - mid kent, thames estuary.

Me too!

Hate it hate it

Fizzy I did that as a teen . It was seen as quite uncool to speak properly in my school, even though we were in a rural East Anglia! Drove my parents to distraction but I grew out of it when I went to uni and realised I was making myself sound like an uneducated wally.

Ethel's, I am that person! I had never heard it as a young child, both parents highly educated, interested in language (speaking about 10 between them) etc. I think I was about 10 the first time I heard someone say "This is she" and I thought it was laughable. Went home and told the Parents about it, and was most discomfited to be told that this girl was correct! I don't use it myself, as like you, I think it's ugly, but since then have never been comfortable about how to answer that question! I tend to opt for my own childhood/parental habit of "Speaking" for cold callers, and "Hi, X" for friends or family.

sorry.

And your name is, despite my autocorrect's insistence, Ethelb

DH is another for 'you was'. He also asks me to 'itch his back'.

I quite like the arch use of "himself" and "herself" accompanied by as in "take this up to himself" (the boss)--> meaning someone who refers to themself as "myself" and is probably a bit up themself, if you see what I mean .

My friend, who got a first in his degree, writes 'carn't' instead of can't. Yes, really.

Nickel, I am in Edinburgh turns out all the cool kids are sayin f in place of th

Nickel, I am in Edinburgh turns out all the cool kids are sayin f in place of th

What would happen to old sloppy songs like "All By Myself". "All by meself" doesn't sound right.
Not to myself anyway