Including me or myself?
In a series of rambling and lengthy Instagram posts on Monday (Sept 6), Mina, 27, wrote: "There is evidence (to support the fact that Jimin was a bully). There are several victims. I just happened to be the last standing one. I've been keeping this for a lawsuit but there are four victims including myself and one of them has already passed."
Should it be "including me" instead "including myself"?
Thanks.
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Yoong Liat Should it be "including me" instead "including myself"? Traditionally, perhaps, but more and more nowadays people are using "myself" where "me" or "I" would once have been used. g.
- Yoong Liat Should it be "including me" instead "including myself"?
- Traditionally, perhaps, but more and more nowadays people are using "myself" where "me" or "I" would once have been used.
- g.
- "He asked John and I" in the mistaken belief that "I" is more proper than "me").
- Now it is prevalent enough that I would read your "myself" example without really noticing anything amiss.
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Yoong LiatShould it be "including me" instead "including myself"?
Traditionally, perhaps, but more and more nowadays people are using "myself" where "me" or "I" would once have been used. Perhaps this began because of a misunderstanding that "myself" was always more proper (a little like how people say e.g. "He asked John and I" in the mistaken belief that
0I am afraid that there are still some of us who see that "myself" as a shibboleth of inadequate attention to proper English.
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