Pedantry

[taimatsu]

Aaaaaaaargh!

This rant has been brewing for a while. I can no longer put up with the gross misuse of thw word 'myself' without saying something.

Sarah and myself are going to the cinema tonight.
Myself and Sam got really drunk.
Could James please contact myself.
If you took a photo of me, please provide a copy to myself.

WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.

Corrections of the above (real, if slightly paraphrased) examples:

Sarah and I are going to the cinema tonight.
Sam and I got really drunk.
Could James please contact me?
If you took a photo of me, please provide me with a copy.

Correct uses of 'myself'.

I'm all by myself, alone in the house.
I looked at myself in the mirror.
He's on holiday in Canada. I went there myself last year.
I made myself a new skirt.

Here's a brief outline of the problem.

Comments

[ifimust.livejournal.com]

May I join you, with a rant about the difference between, "your" and "you're", and between alter and altar?? Theological students, take note....

[imc.livejournal.com]

Ah, but there's a whole page (http://euclid.colorado.edu/~rmg/its.html) devoted to the "your" issue.

If you'll forgive the following entirely random remark, you came up in a conversation I had with bekithewitch on Friday about the links between ukrc and urp, so how much of a coincidence is it that you've popped up in one of my friends' journals the very same weekend?…

[ifimust.livejournal.com]

There are whole pages devoted to all kinds of issues - but they seem to pass my students by, I fear....

I've not posted in ukrc for years. I got far too tired defending my right to be called a Christian - from other Christians. I made good friends there, though.

Not that I have the slightest idea who you are, to be honest. :)

[imc.livejournal.com]

No reason you should recognise me — I'm not a high profile poster (Google can find me, however). I've been to a few meets, though.