To be worried that the word MYSELF might actually becone interchangeable with me or I?

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Yeah language evolves, but for farksake "myself and my husband went to the pub", "contact myself with any further queries" and so on.

This is an abundance of Wrong. And it hurts my head.

Didn't the OED add a new meaning to literally because of common usage of the word? This may happen to myself.

Myself is pissed off with the situation. What about yourselves?

Fortunately our solicitor sounds like Celia Johnson in Brief Encounter

No chance as long as I have anything to do with it.

Oh Coruskate much as I have admired and agreed with many of your posts this is wrong.

we could do without the distinction between I and me, to be honest. I mean, "Me went to the pub" is perfectly comprehensible and is common usage in some dialects

when me go to the pub with my husband him always buy me a drink". Perfectly understandable

Kate , no. Just no.

"When I go to the pub with my husband he always buys me a drink"

Corus, you are addressing someone who regularly uses "one" as a third person singular on internet forums because "you" sounds wrong.

I can't think of any sentence other than "all by myself" where "myself" is correct.

I know someone who says and writes "sank" for "something". As in - "I'm bored - let's go out and do sank".

I've worked out that this has come from "something" > "summink" > "sank".

I want to gouge my eyes out every time I see it.

I can't think of any sentence other than "all by myself" where "myself" is correct.

I saw myself in the mirror.

Have you got a spreadsheet then Corus?

who is Phaedra?

I just stabbed myself in the leg?

I can't think of any sentence other than "all by myself" where "myself" is correct.

Oh, also: I have to familiarize myself with the XXX.

I used to review letters written to customers from the bank I worked at.

Every day I saw this. "If you want to discuss further, please contact myself".

Every time, it was written by someone trying to sound "posh". They couldn't understand why it was incorrect.

This caused me RAGE!

I think it is gradually slipping into language now.

Ah yes. Now I see.

I got really fucked off with the n power guy on the phone once and because I am petty and spiteful I decided to correct his incessant use of myself and yourself. He then said it wasn't his fault because he was dyslexic! Obviously I couldn't say anything then although it had fuck all to do with being dyslexic.

I hope not! I really, really hate the use of 'myself' in writing, as in daddypig's example. It's a bit like the pretentious shop I worked in as a 16 year old insisting that we ask every customer "how they wished to pay for their merchandise?" when they'd bought 20 Rothmans and a lottery ticket.

Yes, yes, the language is constantly evolving, but remember when it was assumed we'd all be speaking Esperanto by now?

Or the Rational Spelling movement of the Edwardian era wich sugestid that speling roolz wer defunkt n diktated bi a ded langwadge so wee shood all bee riting lyk this. It didnt wurk.

Admittedly it's a damn sight easier to teach phonics decoding with rational spelling (why do all of DD's books contain 'through?') but it hurt my head even to type that paragraph.

It's a bit like the pretentious shop I worked in as a 16 year old insisting that we ask every customer "how they wished to pay for their merchandise?" when they'd bought 20 Rothmans and a lottery ticket.

We need a 'wince' emoticon

I saw myself in the mirror.

Exactly. And this is a good way to remember how to use reflexive pronouns. They have to refer to or "reflect" something, i.e., the subject of the sentence.

EmZed, myself was aving a social life. Alops.

Mards, I'm so Soz, chucklewump, myself wouldn't wanna pizzon yourselfs canapes.

Friff the possessive apostrophe. Idec.

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I got really fucked off with the n power guy on the phone once and because I am petty and spiteful I decided to correct his incessant use of myself and yourself. He then said it wasn't his fault because he was dyslexic! Obviously I couldn't say anything then although it had fuck all to do with being dyslexic.

Gah, that's an excuse that really annoys me. It's invariably brought up be people who clearly aren't dyslexic, and who have no comprehension what dyslexia means. In itself its pretty disrespectful to people who genuinely do have dyslexia.