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am i wrong?

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luminarphrases · 02/02/2008 23:09

to be sick of shop assistants and customer service assistants adding 'yourself' or 'myself' to the end of sentences... its not right, surely?

like 'i'll just do that for yourself'
i can't remember any other examples right now, but over the last couple of weeks, i've heard it so many times

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BBBee · 02/02/2008 23:13

i have never heard it but is sounds most fucking annoying and incorrect.

I think you should correct and be stern - it needs nipping in the bud before it storms the country.

somersetmum · 02/02/2008 23:19

Woman I work with says, on the phone: "If you have a problem, please don't hesitate to call myself".

gigglewitch · 02/02/2008 23:22

very annoying. And grammatically incorrect

BBBee · 02/02/2008 23:24

somerset I would say 'call myself what?' and be all confused.

how irritating.

somersetmum · 02/02/2008 23:25

lol, I might try that. I've only been there four weeks, so might wait a little longer

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luminarphrases · 02/02/2008 23:27

i'm glad its not just me

somerset- i've heard that one as well! i'm convinced its people who desperately want to sound authoritative

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somersetmum · 02/02/2008 23:31

Another one that really annoys me, sorry if you've already covered it, is when people say "those ones". Why the need for the extra word? What is wrong with just saying "those"?? dh says it too, tis very annoying.

Sixer · 02/02/2008 23:37

'cause it's how we speak, like. we was never learnt proper. And, right, you just speak to myself if you needs any help, right, just me like, no one else, jus' meself. got it?

Sixer · 02/02/2008 23:38

'cause, i knows it all.

random · 02/02/2008 23:40

And I is thick because I'm a shop assisant [rolls eyes emoticon]

Sixer · 02/02/2008 23:46

random that was awful. it's more , an' i is fick 'cause i'm a shop assistant. (My DN taught me this today, along with all the other bebo speak). So i knows wats rite

random · 02/02/2008 23:49

Soz sixer I aint down with the speak but can do msn talk ...lol ..brb

Sixer · 02/02/2008 23:52

oh flip what's brb again

random · 02/02/2008 23:53

Be right back tut.. call yaself a shop assisant ..letting the side down now

Sixer · 02/02/2008 23:58

nah i knew it rite, jus' testin'. so now izz gurt pissed an' off to chill in da bed. nites brb. (i really do need a second lesson from DN).

random · 02/02/2008 23:58

laters sixers xxxx

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luminarphrases · 02/02/2008 23:59

if thats aimed at me, i wasn't being snide to shop assistants. i worked for the past two years in a customer service position. its just something i am hearing more and more often.

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random · 03/02/2008 00:03

sorry luminarphrases just pisses me off that we are all lumped together we cant all have high flying careers ..some off us just need to pay the rent

random · 03/02/2008 00:08

'offers hand to luminarphases' and promises to stop drinking and posting

Sixer · 03/02/2008 00:09

nah, it woznt, we jus all talk difent, 'an i hates this kinda of stuff, 'cause, izz crap at grammer 'an puctuation, 'an, rite, it's like slammin' us an' da accent rite. we trys, an' we nice to da olds ain't dat all dat matters, like? ohh and every now and again we remember to say please and thank you. We are not all right all the time!

Sixer · 03/02/2008 00:10

'nite nite.

random · 03/02/2008 00:12

lol sixer fort u waz chillin man ..

Sixer · 03/02/2008 22:06

yeeer I wazzzzz, passs it to I

Pan · 03/02/2008 22:20

to be fair, it's an Irish thing to use himself, yourself etc. And I like it.

edam · 03/02/2008 22:24

I suspect they are trying to be extra-polite and getting it very wrong. No idea why they would think 'myself' or 'yourself' sounds more polite than 'me' or 'you'.

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