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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