Grammar question

Can someone easily define the correct usage of "myself", "himself",
yourself" etc.

I keep hearing people say things like "I decided to refer it to
yourself", which I'm sure should be "I decided to refer it to you",
but before I go postal abouit it at work I thought I'd seek a ruling
here.

 

http://www.englishdaily626.com/gocu.php?005

http://www.lessontutor.com/eesReflexive.html

 

It is a bloody annoying trait - dunno where it has sprung from but seems
to be very common.

Here's one for you: is it correct for people to use the expression 'for
free'? To me it sounds like it should be either 'for nothing' or 'free
of charge'.


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You are correct.

 

This would only work with a huge Orish accent.

Nah. Much more fun to go postal about something you then
turn out to be wrong about.

 

You are correct, go postal, or check yourself before you wreck
yourself..

 

Thank you. I myself will now commence a new Jihad.

 

Only fun for others

 

"you" is plural.
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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

That's "ewes", shurely.

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SNIP

No I am not plural.

Tony

 

Otherwise it would be "I decided to refer it to yourselves"...

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In uk.rec.motorcycles, Jeremy said:

"Gratis", "Nil charge" and "Nixxis" are three I use. I very rarely say
"Free" because it sounds like "Three".

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Grimly Curmudgeon said:

No, that's sheeps.

 

I'm reading "Watching the English" by Kate Fox ATM and she lists the "seven
deadly sins"; seven words that middle-middle class people or lower use which
mark them as being beneath the upper and upper-middle classes.

Some of them ("dinner" when used to describe the midday meal, "sweet" used
to mean the dessert course of a meal and "settee") I would have picked up
on, but the other 4 ...

Did anybody else here know that it's very middle class to use "pardon"[1],
"lounge", "toilet" or "serviette"?

[1] Jilly Cooper apparently heard her son tell one of his friends that,
"Mummy says that 'pardon' is much worse word than '****'".


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Whinging Courier

Ah, but which sheep?

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"what?", "heap out", "bog", "sleeve".

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Grimly Curmudgeon said:

"Flossy"

 

Apparently using "what?" in place of "pardon" and "bog" instead of "toilet"
are both acceptable to the upper-classes, the latter only if you are
obviously being ironic.

I meant "lounge" in the sense of a room in one's house, but "heap" might do.


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Simian said:

"Summink to eat"

"Afters", although my family says pudding and my Nan says sweet.

"Eh?", "What?" But pardon if talking to someone with influence, which is
hardly ever

Lav, Bog, Khazi