Do You Confuse "Myself" and "Me"?

United States
September 2, 2006 4:10pm CST
Too many people use the word "myself" when they mean "me" instead. examples: "You will meet with either John or myself," or "Both Tim and myself will be out this week." Do you do this? It's wrong. I think it comes from people being taught that "Me and John went to the store" is wrong (which it is), so they overcompensate and avoid "me" in all cases.
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9 responses
• India
16 Oct 06
Yes, happens with me. I sometimes make this mistake. Are there any sources or links where I can understand this basic differences in english words.
@rmuxagirl (7548)
• United States
16 Oct 06
I would be "you will meet with either John or myself" that is correct. the second one would be "Tim and I". The use of me would be something like "Ellen will go with me to the store." I don't think I can explain it all to well without my grammer book infront of me. I know the useage, but terrible at explaining.
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@Sunset50 (1397)
• United States
14 Sep 06
You are so right suitsme. I always wondered if people used slang so often in the same sentence because they did not learn correctly to expand their english in school? I sometimes make mistakes in english and it is the only language I speak! If I wonder what to use as far as I and myself go, I break down the sentence. You will meet with either John or Myself, I see the either/or as the deciding word. I would say you will meet with John and me or you will meet with John or Myself. It does get confusing. I have heard people say english is the hardest to learn. Growing up with english and english slang from the different regions in the US, it does get confusing.
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• Italy
2 Sep 06
I'm an autodidact, so it's not like I'm learning English studying books or something, just surfing the web, visiting websites and both talking and chatting with my American friends. So of course the errors I find on my way are endless, but I usually identify them from the very beginning. It's very likely that I'll use slang or American English and British English in the same sentence, or stuff like that, but I don't think to make any grammar errors (at least I hope, LOL)!
@vimal2k6 (391)
• India
13 Sep 06
its meanings are same but the usage place differ...
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• Japan
25 Sep 06
I guess most people just wanna get their message across without paying much attention to the political correctness of the grammer.
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@Victoria7 (1240)
• Spain
2 Sep 06
More common is when "me" is confused with "I" - eg "John and me went to the store" is supposed to be "John and I went to the store." I think most people either don´t care about grammar or are too lazy. I think a lot of people on this site don´t use English as their first language so using bad grammar and a lot of abbreviations just does not help!!
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@Alexis (219)
• Portugal
2 Sep 06
That has to be a Freudian lapse...
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• Janesville, Wisconsin
25 Nov 06
I make many Gramatical errors.. and word errors. Sometimes it comes with how I naturally express myself and it is on purpose to show I am in a silly playful mood. Other times it is out of nervousnes, or just that I am struggling to remember which way is the proper way to stay it. "Me" and "I" is what I confuse the most.. and I am known for sparking the pronouns too. People say its deliberate to confuse others it's not. It is just I see masculine and feminine slightly different and sometimes I will use he or she based on that energy, or I will use gender neutral pronouns that people do not realise are real words, they just are not taught because there are over 20-30 some sets of them, that no one has agreed upon being standard as different communities favor different ones, as some for this reason will argue no such thing. Well, take care all. - DNatureofDTrain