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LaPerduta · 2023-07-07T21:07:44+00:00

Please make it stop! My husband and *I* went out to dinner. Our friends invited my husband and *me* to dinner. It's not rocket science.

noglow · 08/07/2023 07:37

I think Beyonce "me, myself & I" was really about her trying to work this out

willWillSmithsmith · 08/07/2023 07:38

noglow · 08/07/2023 07:35

I swear if someone had explained it like this at school I would have spent a lot less time trying to work it out

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👍 I know, it’s so easy to work out this way. Another example, the late Queen’s ‘My husband and I (would like to thank blah blah) is ‘I would like to thank’. You wouldn’t say Me and my husband as that would be ‘Me would like to thank’.

Hobbitfeet32 · 08/07/2023 07:42

What job do you do @friendlycat ?

Tryingtokeepgoing · 08/07/2023 07:54

noglow · 07/07/2023 22:39

When do you use "and I"?

Celine Dion was definitely a fan

BuffyTheCat · 08/07/2023 08:11

GojiApparatus · 08/07/2023 01:24

I'm confused of your point, you could of posted this in Pedants Corner, its not that hard. Next time they should take your Mumsnet membership off of you, it would be better to have less pedants here, we could afford to loose a few😀

LadySpratt · 08/07/2023 08:17

And the lovely John Torode on Masterchef, it’s always “Greg and I”.

LadySpratt · 08/07/2023 08:19

Tryingtokeepgoing · 08/07/2023 07:54

Celine Dion was definitely a fan

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I didn’t link correctly, sorry.

I meant to add John Torode to the list of frequent users of ‘X and I…’

MoneyMoneyPit · 08/07/2023 08:45

Thunderpunt · 07/07/2023 23:24

It is snobbish when comments such as
'It makes my ears bleed'
Or
'I want to boil myself in oil'
Or any other number of sanctimonious comments. Like I said take yourself off to Pedants Corner, but don't expect the great unwashed public to all have had the same level of education as some of you. So if they aren't grammatically perfect, accept it without the sneering and stay in your own fucking lanes

Nah. I am not taking myself off anywhere. Venting on an anonymous forum with other internet randoms is fine. I am not taking my kids’ teachers to task about it or berating friends IRL.

MoneyMoneyPit · 08/07/2023 08:52

GojiApparatus · 08/07/2023 01:24

I'm confused of your point, you could of posted this in Pedants Corner, its not that hard. Next time they should take your Mumsnet membership off of you, it would be better to have less pedants here, we could afford to loose a few😀

This comment raised my blood pressure. I wish I didn’t care. My current bugbear is people saying they are ‘adverse’ to something.

ThisIsUncool · 08/07/2023 09:26

GojiApparatus · 08/07/2023 01:24

I'm confused of your point, you could of posted this in Pedants Corner, its not that hard. Next time they should take your Mumsnet membership off of you, it would be better to have less pedants here, we could afford to loose a few😀

Ouch!😆😆😆

nonevernotever · 08/07/2023 09:28

MoneyMoneyPit · 08/07/2023 08:52

This comment raised my blood pressure. I wish I didn’t care. My current bugbear is people saying they are ‘adverse’ to something.

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I just assumed that @GojiApparatus was trying to take the piss

Coleslawclara · 08/07/2023 09:30

I’ve found my people! Estate agents love a bit of the yourself, myself. As do used car sales(people)men…

GojiApparatus · 08/07/2023 09:32

Don’t even get me started on young people pronouncing vs. as “verse”

MoneyMoneyPit · 08/07/2023 09:33

nonevernotever · 08/07/2023 09:28

I just assumed that @GojiApparatus was trying to take the piss

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Oh sorry, I was not clear. I knew they were!!

Amispringy · 08/07/2023 09:37

Thunderpunt · 07/07/2023 22:34

Why not bugger off to Pedants Corner, rather than look snobbishly down on those who don't have a the perfect grasp of the English language that you have OP.

In what way is it snobbish?

TheMoth · 08/07/2023 09:38

Alot.

I have lost count of the arguments I have had with kids who try to convince me that I am wrong.

I'm aware that I will probably lose the battle, and that alot will one day be as common as today and tomorrow. But hopefully I'll be dead by then.

Amispringy · 08/07/2023 09:41

@LubaLuca

I had "Please bear with myself, I'm going to pop you on hold."*
*
I would have hung up 🤣🤣

Fairislefandango · 08/07/2023 09:44

I swear if someone had explained it like this at school I would have spent a lot less time trying to work it out.

Yes, it's definitely the easiest way to explain it. Unfortunately lots of teachers don't have the greatest grasp of grammar. I'm an MFL teacher and we often know more about English grammar than the English teachers. The lack of English grammar taught to students also makes it a very laborious process to explain French/German/Spanish!

noglow · 08/07/2023 09:47

Tryingtokeepgoing · 08/07/2023 07:54

Celine Dion was definitely a fan

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And Whitney

And IIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiIIIIII

noglow · 08/07/2023 09:48

willWillSmithsmith · 08/07/2023 07:38

👍 I know, it’s so easy to work out this way. Another example, the late Queen’s ‘My husband and I (would like to thank blah blah) is ‘I would like to thank’. You wouldn’t say Me and my husband as that would be ‘Me would like to thank’.

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Great thank you! Are you an English teacher? If not you should consider it!

MoneyMoneyPit · 08/07/2023 09:48

Fairislefandango · 08/07/2023 09:44

I swear if someone had explained it like this at school I would have spent a lot less time trying to work it out.

Yes, it's definitely the easiest way to explain it. Unfortunately lots of teachers don't have the greatest grasp of grammar. I'm an MFL teacher and we often know more about English grammar than the English teachers. The lack of English grammar taught to students also makes it a very laborious process to explain French/German/Spanish!

I did a foreign language course as an adult. After two weeks, half the students left as they could not grasp the grammatical concepts. Stuff like third person and subject/object. That was not their fault, but that of the teaching system at the time they were at school.

EggInANest · 08/07/2023 09:51

Use I when you are the subject of the verb, when you are the one doing it:
I made dinner

Use me when you are the object of the verb, the one the verb is done to : DH made dinner for me

Use Myself when you are both the subject and the object, you to yourself: I made dinner for myself

pickledandpuzzled · 08/07/2023 09:53

sevenbyseven · 07/07/2023 22:12

I ordered a takeaway for myself and my husband 😁

I'm confused by this one.

'I ordered a takeaway for myself' is fine; '...and my husband' implies an extra phrase.

I ordered a takeaway for myself and my husband ate it. LTB?

willWillSmithsmith · 08/07/2023 09:55

noglow · 08/07/2023 09:48

Great thank you! Are you an English teacher? If not you should consider it!

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Thanks but I’m not. I wasn’t taught it either but it suddenly occurred to me one day that you need to remove the other people to see if it can still make sense. It’s like commas - a lot of people put commas where they’re not needed. If you remove the words inside the commas the sentence should still make sense.

BeverlyHa · 08/07/2023 09:56

They are being politically correct. Yourself at least does not indicate gender