>>>>>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. ;)
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>>>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.
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>>Ok, I can see that I'm going to have to quit reading this thread since these sentences just make my eyes bleed.
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>>I wonder, if you're reading something and you run across something like these sentences or some of my favorites like "loose the game", "your crazy", "she was finding it hard to breath", does it hurt to read them? I find that it does as my brain, or my eyes, tries to force the letters into something that makes sense to me.
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>>Or is it just me?
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>I honestly believe that 'lose' as 'loose' is the single most misspelled word in use on the internet. It especially cracks me up when one person, in a posting, calls another person a 'looser'. Brings tears to my eyes.

Especially when they repeat it several times, as in "You loose! Your SUCH a looser! I can't describe how much you LOOSE!"

There are times when I want to respond with "What are they loosening? Something is too tight? And how can you own 'such'?"