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

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AIBU?

Going back to the Billy examples would "I had dinner with Billy and my husband last Friday" be correct or not?

Of course it would. (Well, as long as your husband doesn't mind Billy being there every time you eat a meal.)

I'm Irish, myself is used alot here, always has been. Seems like a mortal sin on MN though for whatever reason.

I'm Irish, myself is used alot here, always has been. Seems like a mortal sin on MN though for whatever reason

Because it's fine in Ireland, and not fine in the UK. If you mean me, say me. If you mean I, say I. And if you are washing yourself saying "I am washing myself" is fine.

Except that it is (sadly from my perspective) ok in the UK and it's a losing battle - on fact I think the war has been lost - it's been going on since Edwardian times!

I don't like "impact" used as a verb. I saw it in a contract I was reviewing on Friday and was itching to change it to "affect".

In fact not on fact!

The other one I don't like is people saying they are excited "for" something when they mean they are excited "about" it, or looking forward to it.

YADNBU

Speaking for myself, I think when people post about yourselves, it rather confuses myself.

Charlie and I went down to the park

Charlie bought me an icecream.

I went on the swings by myself.

A man asked us if we'd like to see some puppies. I said "yes" but Charlie stopped me

But it's used differently in Ireland, @NotTonightJosepheen, either for emphasis ('I wouldn't do that, myself'/'Will you have one yourself? Ah, go on!'), or just jocularly ('Is herself inside the house?'/ 'Would himself like to come with us?''Myself and the lads were going to go out for something to eat')...

I don't think it's generally used in that pseudo-formal 'If you write back to myself immediately, I will reply' way in Hiberno-English. Or if it is, it's very recently and has crept in from TV...

I don't like "impact" used as a verb. I saw it in a contract I was reviewing on Friday and was itching to change it to "affect".

God yes. Or 'to have an impact on', even.

I had a letter home from school saying something like "If you have any questions on the above, please contact myself".

CONTACT ME. ME. ME.

Myself is wrong. And you know what? It's not that hard to get it right.

hence the overuse by apprentice candidates in front of Lord Sugar.

To be fair, Lord Sugar's grammar is fairly appalling too. "What was you doing on that task?" "Was you listening?"

Agreed @NotTonightJosepheen. The more I read in Irish (I'm refreshing my bad school Irish currently), the more I realise that the Revivalists were wrong, and Irish just does not map well into English at all.

Nothing annoyed me more than when my dd used ‘.... and me’ in the correct, grammatical context - i.e. ‘my grandparents took me and my sister to the shop’ - and her Year 5 teacher had crossed it out and written ‘my sister and I.’

I wrote a rather strongly worded letter to the teacher in question.

myself is used alot here

Great thread!

Where has this being «excited for» something come from?

I have only recently become aware of it.

It grates on myself..

Only joking It grates on me.

Absolutely!! People who use myself out of context piss me right off. I’d rather hear me used incorrectly than people constantly saying myself. It doesn’t sound clever, you sound like a moron!

That and glottal stops. I heard a politician talking yesterday and the lack of Ts made my teeth ache.

Ooh. Not sure one ought to pronounce the Ts in "glottal stops". Perhaps insert a glottal stop instead...

ViaSacra

Nothing annoyed me more than when my dd used ‘.... and me’ in the correct, grammatical context - i.e. ‘my grandparents took me and my sister to the shop’ - and her Year 5 teacher had crossed it out and written ‘my sister and I.’

I wrote a rather strongly worded letter to the teacher in question.

It is correct - and polite - to put yourself last.

Should have been my sister and me.

@longwayoff it was Catherine McKinnell! I noticed it too. It's weird - glottal stops not really standard in the geordie(ish) accent of people of her (my) age I don't think

The other one I don't like is people saying they are excited "for" something when they mean they are excited "about" it, or looking forward to it.

In shared presentations, people seem to have started saying things like, "he'll talk to that slide, and can you talk to this one?" No, I can't. I can talk about the slide, to the audience, but I'm not talking to the bloody slide, because it won't listen. (Haven't actually dared say this yet, though I fear it would become a full-blown rant about the misuse of prepositions and phrasal verbs and stuff, and they'll all look at me like they don't know what I'm on about (because they probably don't,) and like I've gone mad. Again.)

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