Me, myself and I [was Re: Python slang]

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Aug 7 00:04:16 EDT 2016


On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> But using it in place of "me"? I don't think so.
>
> "The research was done by myself."
> "He punched myself in the head."
>
> I wouldn't say it is *wrong*, just inelegant and rather pretentious.

I'm sure there's good poetic reason for writing sentences like that.
Maybe you want to sound like a nine hundred year old master of
oogie-boogie 'Force' power?

ChrisA



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