>>Use of these is getting worse. Some examples, not from real life, but typical of what I've experienced/heard a lot lately:
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>>"Hi Mr McDonnell. I was wondering if our offer has reached yourself yet."
>>"Could you manage to make payment to ourselves by the end of the week."
>>"We're sending the order to yourselves direct."
>>"There's just myself and yourself here."
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>Don't you just love those? In fact, a couple of my friends were talking to myself about this just the other day. ;)
The moronic rule of thumb would appear to be "if the sentence requires a pronoun, replace it with one of those pronouns with 'self/selves' on the end"
Myself can see that by the end of the next decade themselves will have replaced every pronoun with its anaphora.
- 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.