The word "me" exists and it is not impolite or uneducated to use it in its proper context.

[UnaCorda]

AIBU?

I've sometimes wondered if the incorrect use of 'yourself' stems from the fact we don't have an informal/formal words for 'you' like they do in some other languages (well, we do, but the old informal 'thou' is obsolete). Thus, people think 'you' sounds too direct when speaking to someone in a business context. Perhaps we should try to bring back 'thou'.

them sound a bit thick, not they

Themselves, shurely?

That sounds completely right to me. What would you say instead? My husband and I?

I agree with the op. Incorrect usage is fine. Pretentious usage is not.

I once had a manager who changed my use of me to myself. She could not construct a grammatically correct sentence and pronounced ask as aks. She also though she was a rather superior cut above. She was a working glass sarf Londoner who had done better than her peers and got herself a masters.

Sadly she didn't realise she was an affected little twit and that the people she'd been to school with took the p out of her as much as the better educated people who worked for her for a little while then.

Yes!!! Overuse of myself and yourself annoys me no end. The apprentice is the worst for it. ‘Myself and Thomas will be...’

I am a primary teacher and on a grammar training the person leading it said people use it when they intend to be extra polite, and I think she’s right, hence the overuse by apprentice candidates in front of Lord Sugar. I’ve noticed it in real life mostly when I’m a customer, and the sales person is trying to impress me or make a sale. I’d never noticed it before but since that training a few years ago I notice all the time and it really pees me off!!

YADNBU. Drives me to distraction.

I'm on WW at the moment and their (genuinely brilliant) app has a social section called Connect.

It's full of people from all different backgrounds talking about losing weight. Although only 5% of us use the word "lose". EVERYONE else uses "loose". Occasionally it gets too much for one of us and they'll explode with a sudden, "YOU LOSE WEIGHT TO MAKE YOUR CLOTHES FEEL LOOSE" post, then go off and eat 24 KitKats. 😆

I know what's correct, but it just sounds wrong to say 'Billy had dinner with my husband and me on Friday' (not just because I don't know anyone called Billy).

But it isn't wrong! It's only because pretentious twats from The Apprentice and Love Island and RossPoldark's secretary keep erroneously saying "I" or "myself" when it should be "me" that people doubt that "me" can be correct, even when it is.

And tbh it doesn't sound remotely wrong to me.

UnaCorda

drives I potty 😂

Ourselves telephoned yourselves ~ quite frequently heard in my office

That should be a sackable offence.

UnaCorda YADNBU

I once heard Prince William say "... for Catherine and I"

Billy's in danger of putting on an extra pound or two with all these dinners he's been having.

That's what I'm trying to say, I think. I know 'me' is correct, but I'm sure that when I was young 'me' was corrected to I (erroneously) so many times that 'me' just instinctively sounds wrong when I read it.

‘Yous’ is very Dublin. We use ‘ye’ outside the Pale.

'Me' is perfectly fine if used correctly but in a lot of cases it isn't. The same applies to 'myself'.

When talking about you, your DH and DC, traditionally one would say eg 'DH, DC and I went to....' So many put themselves first these days eg 'me, DH and DC went to' which is wrong since you wouldn't say 'me went to'. Even worse is 'myself, DH and DC' ugh.

Me, myself, and I - Lyrics below.

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We discussed this at work a month ago. It started with a discussion about whether it should be "please let Billy and myself know..." or "please let myself and Billy know..."

We discussed this at work a month ago. It started with a discussion about whether it should be "please let Billy and myself know..." or "please let myself and Billy know..."

Did anyone have the good sense to say that neither of those examples is correct?

No problem with 'me' or 'I' as long as they're used correctly.

I can understand people finding 'who' and 'whom' a problem but me and I are easy to use.

My personal rule is to always use 'me' unless the sentence can be rearranged so that if there were only one person being referred 'I would be correct.
So:

Example 1 You and I can go'. If it was just me , I'd say 'I can go'. If you say ' me can go' you can tell immediately that the 'me' in the first sentence is incorrect.

Example 2. '"would you give that to John and I?"? is wrong as you would never say ' Can you give that to I?'. So the correct version is ' Can you give that to John and me?'

I have no idea when you would use ' myself' and it sounds really clumsy so I never use it myself