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 😄

I couldn't get worked up over this

I used to work with someone who always included 'myself' somewhere in every email. Always incorrectly. The other one that's annoying me at the mo is adding an s to words e.g. freedoms. Why not just freedom? That's happening with so many words.

Makes myself's blood boil.

YES ABOUT THE MISUSE OF “INVITE” 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

@GreyGardens88

You are in the wrong place, my friend

I’ve heard DH using ‘myself’ and ‘yourself’ on conference calls a few times since we’ve been working together at home during lockdown.

As I would prefer for our marriage to remain intact, I have taken to working in a different room...

I love Bryan Adams's song "Run to You"

But the second line makes me wince.

"She thinks my love for her will never die
But that'd change if she ever found out about you and I"

I tolerate it for the sake of the rhyme.

if we are going to talk about other words as well please can I point out that if you have surgery several times you have had several operations, not " surgeries". Thank you.

Can you explain this one a little further? Is "excited for" ever correct or should it always be "excited about

You can be excited for a person - eg I am excited for Lucy because it's her wedding on Saturday but you are excited about her wedding.

Or you are looking forward to the wedding.

But saying you are excited for a thing is wrong.

Nothing can be as bad as all the "I'm going to loose my shit" on Facebook. Always makes me feel queasy.

I second the recommendation to listen to Cabin Pressure on BBC Sounds, plenty for pedants to enjoy in every episode and it's repeated regularly

@TheVamoosh

I received this email from the labor party a while ago:

Join Keir and I to talk about what we can all do to support each other as part of Loneliness Awareness Week.

You wouldn't say "join I to talk about..." But as soon as there's another person involved, some people seem to think "me" is a no-no. I guess they've been told never to say "me and Keir went to X,Y and Z" and get mixed up.

Wow. I really hope that Keir Starmer QC did not approve that.

I agree, NewNewt - and even here on MN there are numerous posts about “loosing weight”. What does it mean - undoing a belt buckle perhaps?

@Nanny0gg

Invite is a verb. It's an Invitation.

Yes. Should be a sticky on every thread

YES! I can’t stand it when people at work say “send me a calendar invite”. I always always write and say “invitation” but nobody ever notices.

Can I join in?

PP has beaten me to the use of "invite" instead of INVITATION but there's also "electric" instead of ELECTRICITY, or even worse, "lekky".

The other one that is rife and shows no sign of abating is the use in U.K. English of “license” as a noun. “My driving license” (or horrifically going full American and saying “my driver’s license”)
You need a license for that software. They have a license to sell alcohol.

It’s a combination of people reading so much American writing online now, spellcheck and not giving a shit. I have had junior lawyers give me side eye for insisting that it be changed in an English law document.

Loath it but would be happy to know that people knew when to correctly use 'me' and 'I'. I still recall hearing the then head of Ofsted being interviewed and he started a sentence with 'Me and ?? were told...', and he was there criticising school standards.

if we are going to talk about other words as well please can I point out that if you have surgery several times you have had several operations, not " surgeries". Thank you.

Nor have you had 'procedures', House, ER etc have a lot to answer for.

This is a topic about which I could go on all day and that washing won't hang itself out!

What about the child who couldn't focus because of bullying? The girl caring for her mother who was just too tired to listen? The family who only spoke their native language at home?

Poor English grammar is not a reflection of character. This thread is awful. Goady and judgemmetal.

Are the posters Irish..........like myself? :p It's perfectly acceptable and everyday language here

Poor English grammar is not a reflection of character. This thread is awful. Goady and judgemmetal.

Who said it was? Its mostly down to lack of teaching, which is now being rectified. OR midfle-management promoted past their competence level.

Though lack of reading also plays a huge part in this. I learnt most of my English grammar and spelling through reading and it was reinforced in school.

Also nobody said they minded it spoken - I'll tell you now that I have a rather strong Scouse accent so I'm sure many people find that horrible to listen to and my vernacular awful. We're talking about professional, written work or attempts to make oneself understood to get advice (not 'advise', as I keep seeing on here).

What about the child who couldn't focus because of bullying? The girl caring for her mother who was just too tired to listen? The family who only spoke their native language at home?
In my experience, those who learn a second language to a degree of fluency usually end up with a better standard of SPAG than that practised by native speakers.

I also find that it is the bullies who usually cannot string a sentence together, not their victims.

I have found my people!

I had a colleague who was like a walking corporate wank-speak manual. She seemed incapable of using "you" or "me" preferring to use reflexive pronouns because, I can only assume, she thought it made her sound more professional. It made her sound like a tit and led to such horrors as "I attached the document to the email sent to yourself last week and would be grateful if yourselves could arrange this to be signed and returned to myself at your earliest convenience". As @ArgumentativeAardvaark says, it's like Arthur from Cabin Pressure.

And her endless use of "reach out" and "going forward" gave me a twitch.

Can I add "having a baby to someone" and "being embarrassed of someone" Both make me shudder.

I saw a post yesterday where the OP wanted to gift some people that worked at a school. I did wonder whether they knew they were going to be given away.

The other one that is rife and shows no sign of abating is the use in U.K. English of “license” as a noun. “My driving license” (or horrifically going full American and saying “my driver’s license”). You need a license for that software. They have a license to sell alcohol.

Ditto the use of "practice" as a verb.
Fairly simple: advise, license, practise = verbs; advice, licence, practice = nouns.

I notice nobody has mentioned the inability of 95% of Mumsnetters to spell "bear" correctly. The number of people here who state that they "can't bare" something is ridiculous. (Or should that be "rediculous"?)