OH: "The client has agreed to meet yourself and myself next week" Why do business wankers insist on saying "yourself" and "myself" instead of "you" and "me"?
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An estate agent once hit me with "can I ask yourself to send myself an email with the details?" Ugh. I know it's shitty to pick up on others' language, but I find this pattern particularly affectatious. Don't talk to me like you're in some modern remake of Shakespeare.
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TIL “affectatious”.
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(I heard a comedian say it once and I had to look it up too, but it's a great word!)
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So what I'm interested in as a non-native speaker: Is it correct though?
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I got this recently: “Any questions, thou art as free to ask as the wind is to blow.” To be fair, it was from the DM hosting an upcoming D&D night at a nearby pub, but still…
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It's not even grammatically correct, it's just something people do which they think makes themselves sound fancy. Yourself/myself is only correct when the person both is the subject and object of the verb (like, coincidentally, in the last sentence).
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I find it weird when I'm asked "would you like a bag at all?" at checkouts. No, not at all, I would die first.
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Pissing me with laughter here.
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Let's set up a meeting to discuss this further with ourselves.
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