Stop saying 'myself and...'

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I'm sorry, I'm grumpy.
It's everywhere.
The top level at work are now using it. They have English degrees.

Ugh I hate this, often said by wide boy sales people to try to make them sound clever...it doesn't! 🤮

In my book, you know what they are saying, you know what they mean. I can't get worked up about things like this. Especially when my grammar is equally as bad. Don't let it ruin your day!

YANBU. It made watching The Traitors completely unbearable. “Myself is voting for yourself tonight”.

I also hate “was” used in the context of “were”. Yes I know it’s a regional thing but come on try harder. I Listened to a podcast with Jo from S Club 7 and it was all “We was filming in Miami” and “It wasn’t like we was fighting or anything”. And I thought come on Jo, you’re a woman in your 40’s, grow up.

A similar one is people writing "they'll" as a contraction of "there will" instead of "there"ll"

I use it sometimes 😭 usage is pretty random. In my head, it sounds less self centred than "I" 😭

I'm not a native speaker so you can't make fun of me.

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I agree, I think it sounds pretentious, and smacks of self-importance.

I once had a very young woman serve me in a shop telling me that the item she recommended (an inanimate object) would be “idealistic for yourself”.

I actually felt so cross that someone had instructed her to use longer words to sound more impressive when it just made her sound stupid. I didn’t say anything, I should add - she looked barely 20.

Agree about I and me, though it’s more annoying in written than spoken English, depending on the formality of the occasion.

Were.

People saying "who cares, if other people can understand me?" - other people care. Poor grammar may affect your job prospects or how much other people respect you in general. You may be at risk of being ripped off or exploited because you sound like somebody stupid, so the assumption is that you are.

As well as the grating 'I was laying on my bed', some take it up a notch - 'I was led on my bed.'

Why? this makes no sense at all!

I also can't bear the now ubiquitous 'I was sat/stood there' which seems to have been generally accepted by newspapers, newsreaders, the BBC and 95% of MN. People are so desperate to use it they pop it in superfluously, preferring 'I was stood next to Eva', where 'I was next to Eva' would do perfectly well.

My other most hated thing is everyone using 'thuh' all the time now, when English convention is to use 'thee' before a vowel. So, nowadays we get 'in THUH east', 'THUH ocean', 'in thuh EU.To my ear that makes a horrible jarring stop between two words which would flow much better as 'thee east' and 'thee ocean' and 'thee EU'.

As for the OP, my daughter had a mortgage broker once who peppered his speech and his emails with things like, "when I met with yourselfs last week, you said to myself that.."

He was a damn good broker though and got them a very decent mortgage! 😀

I heard a woman on a train talking to her friend and describing a conversation with her other half "and then he turned around and went..."
Can't stand that expression. However, I do like to use "outwith", it's a great word and a perfectly normal Scots term, also used professionally for "outside" or "beyond".
Examples might be "outwith the curtilage of the property" or "outwith the scope of VAT". Surprising the amount of people who don't know it or think it's not a real word.
See also people who think "discrete" is a mistake and I must have meant "discreet" so amend my drafts accordingly...