>>>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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>>I read a comment today where the individual (who holds a Masters and several other degrees) wrote:
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>>I look forward to working with yourselves and ....
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>>:o)
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>>The author of the comment is English (London area)....
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>Doesn't surprise me. It's the bloody English telephone people (predominantly) from whom I hear it.
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>Another thing I can't understand is:
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>A script writer, writing, say, a screen or teleplay, writes dialogue like:
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>MATT "That's entirely between you and I"
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>and this grammatical error might be said several times in the scene
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>yet neither the actors (many of whom SHOULD be grammatically well educated) involved in the scene, nor the director, nor a proof-reader, nor ancillary staff on hand, nor anyone spots it.
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>Drives me mad!

I will forgive a scriptwriter. It's more important for their dialogue to be authentic, i.e. the way people really speak, than grammatically correct. It's not supposed to be an English lesson.