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 😄

Loath it but would be happy to know that people knew when to correctly use 'me' and 'I'.

You can be loath to do something, but if you dislike something strongly you loathe it.

The one that really pisses me off is when people finish every sentence with an exclamation mark!

Especially if they leave an unnecessary fucking space before every one of them !

I can't trust anyone who uses "myself" incorrectly.

@UnaCorda

The one that really pisses me off is when people finish every sentence with an exclamation mark!

Especially if they leave an unnecessary fucking space before every one of them !

Or put a question mark after a statement "You are aware that some people actually do like broccoli?"

Or people who start sentences with or.

All of the things mentioned grate on me, especially less/fewer. My poor DH gets it wrong frequently (and he's better educated and much cleverer than I am; I think he just doesn't care about such trivial things, sigh) and he then gets the full force of my "YOU. MEAN. FEWER" wrath that I cannot inflict on anyone else.

My children are at the stage where they are still not 100% at the past tense of some verbs. They incorrectly put -ed on the end of words such as sit/write/draw and say sitted down/writted this story/drawed you a picture. I try to be sensitive as to when it's not the right thing to do to correct them but I find it very stressful!

Whether to use infer or imply seems to be a wild stab in the dark for most people.

Could of/would of are almost homophones of could've would've so presumably that's the source of the confusion there.

I think it's because they don't know whether to say DH and I or DH and me.

@OhTheRoses

Fair point

*Can I add in “needs gone” or “needs spoken” instead of “needs TO GO” or “needs TO BE SAID”.

Where does this word salad even come from?

My Scottish relatives would say this. I don't mind it when it's regional. It's how they've always spoken.

It comes from people not being taught the correct use of pronouns. My sister actually says and writes, “John’s and I’s’ anniversary.....it’s horrifying. But it’s also the mark of someone who hasn’t read

A friend of mine is even worse than your sister. She says things like “a girl I went to school with’s brother”. I sit there digging my nails into my palms in an attempt to stop myself correcting her. She’s also one to use “should of”. She uses “being” and “been” interchangeably such that she writes things like “that must of being so difficult”.

I've got a bit of sympathy with the less and fewer. The myself/me/I one is easy to work out for someone who's not sure, but less and fewer is something you have to remember.

Along with number and amount. But it's perfectly logical and not difficult to remember.

It is the language of every Detective Inspector in the land

Our local PCs tweet about their activities.

Would it be very wrong of me to (nicely) correct their 'Myself and PC Plod' tweets?

My children are at the stage where they are still not 100% at the past tense of some verbs. They incorrectly put -ed on the end of words such as sit/write/draw and say sitted down/writted this story/drawed you a picture. I try to be sensitive as to when it's not the right thing to do to correct them but I find it very stressful!

Oh, I like it in little ones. It's actually logical and shows they're working out how language 'works'. As long as they've stopped by their teens...

@crispysausagerolls @JellyfishandShells @cologne4711 Perhaps I'm dyslexic? And you think it's fine to poke fun at me ? How unbelievably conceited you are.

I've found those who are this critical IRL tend to be chronic underachievars making snidey remarks about others to make themselves fell better about their miserable lives. Well done.

Myself and John went to the shops. I brought 20 apples, John said I should of brought less.

Invite as a noun drives me nuts on here.

Thankfully, those now at school have a much better grasp on grammar than those who were at school in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. They actually teach it in primary now!

My kids are shaping up nicely to be pedants . They often tut over the use of 'less' when 'fewer is correct'. And don't get me started on 'of' instead of 'have'. I see some friends do this on FB, along with apostrophes in random plurals - and I judge.

I am sat here, wandering where your all going with this.

When people write ‘carnt’ like Middle Aged people... how have you gone through Life without someone saying... hey, you definitely don’t spell it like that. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@LaChatte

Well played

Saw this and thought of you lot

Yes it’s annoying !

I'll just drop this hideous mess here:

He's toys are all over the floor
His going to the shop for some bread

Ack!

Having dyslexia doesn't make you misuse 'myself'

@Nanny0gg I didn't. I was pulled up on my spelling of judgemental.

He's toys are all over the floor
His going to the shop for some bread

Someone who does this must surely have a very scant understanding of the actual words they are using - they're just doing it all by ear, the way very young children speak before they learn to write.

I don't know how you could critically evaluate or analyse information, or parse a sentence, if you have no awareness of the difference between, for example, "his" and "he's", or "being" and "been". Must make life quite hard to navigate sometimes if you have to deal with documentation or complex instructions.

[quote Laks0007]**@crispysausagerolls* @JellyfishandShells* @cologne4711 Perhaps I'm dyslexic? And you think it's fine to poke fun at me ? How unbelievably conceited you are.

I've found those who are this critical IRL tend to be chronic underachievars making snidey remarks about others to make themselves fell better about their miserable lives. Well done.[/quote]
As pointed out upthread, trotting out the "dyslexia" excuse for an error which blatantly has nothing to do with dyslexia is pretty disablist and offensive.