About the use of “myself”

[crispysausagerolls]

Yes it’s petty, yes it’s stupid, yes there have been multiple threads on it but ffs i have just opened 3 threads in a row where people say “myself and DH” or “DS and myself”!

STOP ITTTTTT!!!!!!! 😬😬😬😭😭😭🙈🙈🙈

It’s almost as annoying as the use of caps lock and emojis 😄

Along with "impacting" as a verb - completely lost battle too.

I have a theory that's due to people who aren't confident choosing between affecting and effecting.

@SirTobyBelch

Sadly the teaching of English grammar in England is shockingly awful (or was in the recent past)

How recent is "the recent past"? I was at school throughout the nineteen-seventies and was never taught English grammar. I remember a high-school English teacher's being surprised at some of the things we hadn't been taught at middle school, but she didn't have space in the timetable to fill the gaps. Of course, not having learned English grammar also made it harder for us to learn other languages.

It's interesting that, among my group of colleagues (all younger than me), the only one with a sound understanding of English grammar is Lithuanian.

I was at school in the seventies and grammar was drummed into us by an English teacher who would slam his cane onto our desks if we’d got anything wrong.

Would/should/could of is lazy. As is the misuse of apostrophes.
Saying “ me and my friend went to the park “ is also lazy. If you remove ‘my friend,’ you’d never say “ me went to the park.”

Oh I could go on and on. I’m also worried about my punctuation in this post!

Think I’ll hide under a rock.

Jane Eyre chapter was great. Going to have to read it again as don't remember it like that, from 30 years ago

It boils my piss. A business contact emailed me a few years ago: “Ourselves will send a quote to yourselves...” 🤢

I thought of another one yesterday - the latest trend to say you're speaking "to" something, rather than "about" it.

Anyone know where that one has come from?

In my word, you speak to a person and about a topic.

I have a theory that's due to people who aren't confident choosing between affecting and effecting

Yes that's what DH says but it's everywhere - I would have thought at least some people knew the difference!

The use of 'myself' for 'me' or 'I' drives me crazy. My theory is people use it because they think it makes them sound more official or intelligent. I used to hear it all the time in cross-examination from police officers. 'Who did that?' 'Myself'. Grrrr!

@cologne4711 what about the ones you get on here that say "what do you think to this dress?". I have no idea where this has sprung from; it doesn't seem to be a colloquialism. It's awful, though!

For some reason there's been a lot of curb crawling going on, according to my local FB page which is where I judge the state of spelling and grammar, as well as a few people kicking their husbands to the curb. What has everybody suddenly forgotten about the kerb?

Why. Android auto correct has also forgotten whole words.

Just received an email from our MD asking me to send information "to myself & colleague" there is clearly no hope for this company but I'm out of here on Friday

Duchess of Cambridge used 'myself' yesterday... all that private education as well...