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

[UnaCorda]

AIBU?

Agreed entirely @NotTonightJosepheen. Though I have been known, for the amusement of a NI Protestant friend, who is fascinated by Irish but doesn't speak any, to say 'Oh, hunger is upon me, let's go for lunch.'

It has a wonderfully melodramatic air in English.

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"Alot" is not a word.

Neither is "awhile". (Well it is, but not in the way it's often used.)

I always think of this as if I took the other person out what would the sentence be.

So, "I am going to dinner tonight." becomes
"David and I are going to dinner tonight".

If someone then asks me who is going to dinner? I reply "[David and] me." If I going on my own I could add "I am going to dinner by myself." "David and I are going by ourselves would also work."

UnaCorda

Jesus, you're a barrel of laughs at a party I'd say

Call centre grammar. (As in, 'We'll send confirmation to yourself ...')
Aarrgh!

Another thread today had 'Ourselves and...'

AryaStarkWolf

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...alot...

Yous is terrible, that Rylan guy says it all the time, it is like nails down a blackboard to me!

English teacher here - I don't get worked up about the wrong use of 'me' or 'I', as I understand some folks might not have been taught grammar. However, using 'myself' just makes you sound like a pretentious twat.

Agreed that Alan Sugar’s grammar is atrocious, however he speaks like a bit of a geezer, and it’s a regional dialect thing. He probably knows it’s grammatically incorrect and doesn’t care, and I bet if he was writing he’d say ‘you were’ not ‘you was’.

When the candidates say ‘myself and Ryan were in charge of that’ or ‘I really want to impress yourself, lord sugar’, they are deliberately changing ‘I’ or ‘me’ or ‘you’ because they think it sounds better. IT DOESN’T.

AryaStarkWolf I'd be more than happy to meet UnaCorda at a party. She's witty and amusing and I bet she's good company irl. And she's unlikely to say "can I get a drink for yourself"!

using 'myself' just makes you sound like a pretentious twat

There seem to be a lot of people who think it makes then sound more intelligent.

They are wrong.

Oh man I hate the overuse of "myself"! Grammatically wrong and makes you sound like a pretentious arse.
I wouldn’t day pretentious, more thick as mince.
I don’t actually think ( non Irish) people who say it are think, but it makes them sound thick.

'I' is the 'Subject' (this is the only context in which 'is' should follow 'I'!), e.g. 'Sam and I are going to the shops'. You only use it where you would use the pronouns 'he/she'.

Me is the object- 'He bought a lovely present for me'. You only use it when you would use 'him/her.

It also annoys me when people use 'whom' incorrectly; 'To whom did you give the chocolate bar' is fine; 'From whom did you get the chocolate bar' is incorrect.

AryaStarkWolf I'd be more than happy to meet UnaCorda at a party. She's witty and amusing and I bet she's good company irl. And she's unlikely to say "can I get a drink for yourself"!

You can all stand in the corner correcting other people's grammar, what fun you will have your yourselves :p

I, personally find that tautologies get on my tits, ^one after another, in succession.
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This thread has cheered me up mightily during an otherwise crap day OP. Ignore the snowflakes.
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"Methinks" is a valuable prat indicator.

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NotTonightJosepheen

From whom did you get the chocolate bar' is incorrect.

Are you quite sure? I think you're mistaken.

I’d like to hear the explanation, too.

From whom did you get the chocolate bar' is incorrect.

No, it isn't.

(Of course it isn’t but I would like to hear why the poster thinks it is wrong...)

Fair enough, @astral.