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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Ondra

Hi, I would have a question. Sometimes (mainly in movies, but not only) I notice some people use pronouns with -self (myself, yourself...), instead of I, you..., even when they present some enumeration of names. For instance: "David, John and myself were/have been..." As I know this shouldn't be correct, though. Could anybody explain this, please? Many thanks!
  

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Some people appear to think this sounds better. They are wrong.
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I've heard this even from some English native speakers. Who can speak English better than a native speaker?
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AnonymousWho can speak English better than a native speaker?
While all native speakers of English, unless they have brain/speech problems, speak their own variety of English fluently, many cannot or do not speak the standard variety of their country.

Some non-native speakers have a better command of the standard language than some native speakers. I h
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I see, thank you! :-)
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