>>>>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"
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>Yeah, drives me nuts, too. Here's what I have about this on my website (http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/writingtips.htm):
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>Don't abuse the "self" words. These words ("myself," "yourself," etc.) belong in a sentence only if the corresponding pronoun has already appeared. For example, this is correct:
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>"I'll take care of it myself."
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>But this is wrong:
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>"He had a meeting with John and myself."
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>That should be:
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>"He had a meeting with John and me."
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>Tamar

Of we few, we unhappy few, we band of botherers ;-)