>>Misuse of the reflexive is seen constantly, even among educated people who should know better.
True. But I find myself letting things slip more and more, since pedantic grammar can make one sound like a prat to the txting generation.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
