>I myself applaud you in your efforts to curb self-abuse.

But changing the habit would be so selfless.


>>>>>>>Use of these is getting worse. Some examples, not from real life, but typical of what I've experienced/heard a lot lately:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"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."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>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"
>>>>
>>>>Yeah, drives me nuts, too. Here's what I have about this on my website (http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/writingtips.htm):
>>>>
>>>>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:
>>>>
>>>>"I'll take care of it myself."
>>>>
>>>>But this is wrong:
>>>>
>>>>"He had a meeting with John and myself."
>>>>
>>>>That should be:
>>>>
>>>>"He had a meeting with John and me."
>>>>
>>>>Tamar
>>>
>>>Interesting. I learned it somewhat differently. I learned that myself should only be used if the subject is 'you.' As in:
>>>
>>>I'll take care of it myself. I'm the subject so I can use myself.
>>>Mary gave a gift to John and me. I'm not the subject so I can't use myself.
>>>
>>>I tend to speak by habit now, but when I was in school, I used 'myself' if I used 'I' as the subject earlier in the sentence.
>>
>>As in "I, me, myself, personally speaking, like ..."? :-)
>>
>>>
>>>Or is that what you meant by 'corresponding pronoun?'