My current pet hate is the latest bit of Brit sales-speak - excessive use of the reflexive pronoun; myself is being 'yourself'ed to death in quotations and other business correspondence.
A simple 'we are holding flight reservations for *you*' is quite sufficient, why does it have to be 'we are holding flight reservations for *yourself*'
I've been trying to goad them into a "yourself and yourself's wife" response, but so far have failed.
Should myself succeed in this, myself will feel justified in pitilessly and painfully murdering yourself.
(Well, not *YOU*, dear reader, but you get my drift)
We are starting the long process to buy a new $1 million+ MRI scanner - anyone who wants to get my business had better keep a very close watch on those damned reflexive pronouns!
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carisma_sensei
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Date: 2007-10-04 05:10 am (UTC)A simple 'we are holding flight reservations for *you*' is quite sufficient, why does it have to be 'we are holding flight reservations for *yourself*'
I've been trying to goad them into a "yourself and yourself's wife" response, but so far have failed.
Should myself succeed in this, myself will feel justified in pitilessly and painfully murdering yourself.
(Well, not *YOU*, dear reader, but you get my drift)
We are starting the long process to buy a new $1 million+ MRI scanner - anyone who wants to get my business had better keep a very close watch on those damned reflexive pronouns!