Python slang

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Aug 6 17:37:26 EDT 2016


On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 7:33 AM, Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sadly it has become an epidemic of late for folks to misuse the word,
> "myself."  I think it comes from people not wanting to sound
> presumptuous when referring to themselves.  It drives me crazy to hear
> so many people say something like, "this research was done by myself and
> my colleague Bob." No, this research was done by my colleague Bob and I.
>  Or this research was just only by me.
>

More likely, the correct version is "this research was done by my
colleague Bob, while I looked on". :D

ChrisA



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