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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: who does this concern? #116468 12/07/03 07:39 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK shanks old hand shanks old hand Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,004 London, UK It's all a bit like my personal bugbear - the tendency to use 'myself' due to the existential fear of 'me' in business writing. Nobody seems to want to use 'me', and because they're all deathly afraid of misusuing 'I', every personal pronoun is of the 'myself' form. It is ugly, awkward, uneuphonious and just plain wrong. Ah well.... cheer the sunshine warrior Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Anu, the descriptivist? AnnaStrophic 11/24/03 12:49 PM Re: Anu, the descriptivist? Jackie 11/25/03 01:59 AM Re: Anu, the descriptivist? Wordwind 11/25/03 03:41 AM Re: Anu, the descriptivist? dxb 11/25/03 11:02 AM We lost whom? Coffeebean 11/25/03 09:55 PM Re: We lost whom? Faldage 11/25/03 10:27 PM Re: We lost whom? dxb 11/26/03 11:56 AM Re: We lost whom? Coffeebean 11/26/03 05:45 PM Re: We lost whom? Faldage 11/26/03 05:56 PM Re: We lost whom? Coffeebean 11/26/03 10:25 PM Re: We lost whom? Buffalo Shrdlu 11/27/03 02:24 AM Re: We lost whom? Coffeebean 12/03/03 10:04 PM Re: We lost whom? Jackie 12/04/03 02:49 AM Re: We lost whom? Coffeebean 12/05/03 04:09 PM Re: We lost whom? Jackie 12/06/03 03:30 AM Re: aspirations AnnaStrophic 12/07/03 05:33 PM who does this concern? of troy 12/07/03 06:18 PM Re: who does this concern? sjmaxq 12/07/03 07:11 PM Re: who does this concern? shanks 12/07/03 07:39 PM Re: who does this concern? sjmaxq 12/07/03 07:44 PM Re: who does this concern? shanks 12/07/03 07:48 PM Re: who does this concern? Coffeebean 12/12/03 12:12 AM Re: who does this concern? Faldage 12/12/03 02:27 PM Re: who does this concern? Coffeebean 12/12/03 04:22 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,371 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 933 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 30 A C Bowden 24 LukeJavan8 3 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,561 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,919 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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