>>>How about "John and myself". ;) I just love that one.
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>>Tell me about it! I work near a woman who talks a lot to customers and I cringe each time I hear her say cr@p like: "Yes, we sent that to yourselves", or "I decided to speak to yourself about this ..." et al.
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>I thing this sort of distinction is sometimes a welcome crutch. "I'm not talking to you, but to your self, if you have one".
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>Also, there's a similar distinction between a person and person's name. Which wouldn't work in my case, my name is hypnotically trained to never answer any calls.
The thing is - the "self" version of a personal pronoun is reflexive. Only YOU can do summat to YOURSELF, only I to myself, him to himself, etc.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.