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English is weird
LTK:
I suppose one takes a shit (and a piss) like one takes a guess, or a hike.
Is it cold in here?:
But there's the ambiguity of being both a verb and a noun.
Pilchard123:
On the topic of reflexive pronouns, does anyone else find it grating when people use then non-reflexively? Too often at work I hear phrases such as "I will call yourself tomorrow", or "you should send that email to myself", or "That notification [that was sent to a customer] came from ourselves". It's like people think it's the formal way of saying "you", "me", or "us".
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: Pilchard123 on 12 Feb 2017, 07:45 ---It's like people think it's the formal way of saying "you", "me", or "us".
--- End quote ---
That's exactly what people think it is.
pwhodges:
Today, as ever is, my wife was complaining to me about someone doing exactly that in an email to her.
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