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Grouch of the Day - Reflexive pronouns
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14/01/2009 11:13:48
Walter Meester
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As a non-native english speaker, I'm absolutely not in a position to tell right from wrong, but speaking a germanic language (Dutch and English are from the same family) I'll throw my 2 cents in here.

>>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:

>>"He had a meeting with John and myself."

Hmmm, I've been using this quite frequent in cases where I want to emphasize and stress the myself part. Is this wrong?

BTW, I find much of this stuff knitpicking anyways. Language is a living organism defined by the ones who use it. In holland the situation is much worse and shamefull. Some elite who absolutely have no respect for the world outside themselves change the spelling rules every few years. So whatever I learned at school in terms of spelling certain words does not apply anymore. I'm high educated, but ashamed to admit that I would not have a clue how to spell certain words anymore because they changed the rules a couple of times. At least with english there isn't such problem (that I'm aware off).
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