>>>>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."
>>>
>>>I read a comment today where the individual (who holds a Masters and several other degrees) wrote:
>>>
>>>I look forward to working with yourselves and ....
>>>
>>>:o)
>>>
>>>The author of the comment is English (London area)....
>>
>>Doesn't surprise me. It's the bloody English telephone people (predominantly) from whom I hear it.
>>
>>Another thing I can't understand is:
>>
>>A script writer, writing, say, a screen or teleplay, writes dialogue like:
>>
>>MATT "That's entirely between you and I"
>>
>>and this grammatical error might be said several times in the scene
>>
>>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.
>>
>>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.

Yes but there was a scene where there were 2 intelligent, educated, English (posh types), who BOTH made the same sciptwriter's error - is what got my ire up.
Otherwise, I would agree with you, if, say, they were supposed to be hoi poloi trying to speak proper-good.