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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Another pet peeve: people who write "myself" for "I". It's the freaking reflexive form, dudes. "I went there myself" is good; "Joe and myself went there" is bad. As with anything else there are weird exceptions, but as a general rule, "myself" must come after "I".
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Don't forget the people who use I instead of me as the direct object. "It belongs to John and I."
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
And don't get me started on the people who think "whom" is a more sophisticated form of "who", nor the ones who think the indefinite article used before a word beginning with a vowel should be spelled "and".
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I know someone who does that. I've taken to throwing things at him. (I've gotten quite good at not quite hitting him.)