
'Hullo chaps', bellows Richard McBeef, of 'the internet' fame. My boss has managed to make 'shown' into a two syllable word and it drives me round the fucking bend. Tell us about the little things that people around you do, which annoy you for more than they rationally should. Vent your spleen.
( , Fri 18 Mar 2016, 8:47)
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People who think that a sentence that takes the form of "This is a photo of Smith and I on holiday", or "I'd appreciate it if you could email that to Jones and I" drive me up the wall.
Whether they're slightly more or less annoying than, or equally annoying to, people who would use "myself" in that sort of context is an issue upon which I change my mind fairly frequently.
Having said that, and contrarily to the letter of the question, I'm not sure whether that stuff annoys me more than it should, because it really is genuinely cretinous. I suspect my annoyance is entirely warranted.
( , Tue 29 Mar 2016, 12:21, 13 replies)

www.b3ta.com/questions/purefury/post2109479
( , Tue 29 Mar 2016, 13:00, closed)

Also - Christ, that's some obsessive searching you've done there.
( , Tue 29 Mar 2016, 13:36, closed)

it's absolutely massively stalkerish
( , Tue 29 Mar 2016, 14:05, closed)

OK, so it's not exactly stalkerish; but its pretty impressive point-scoring.
( , Tue 29 Mar 2016, 14:19, closed)

so it's pretty much guaranteed that every regular poster has said it at some point.
( , Tue 29 Mar 2016, 14:24, closed)

I'm too much of a prescriptivist for that.
Darn it.
( , Tue 29 Mar 2016, 15:10, closed)

HTH
( , Wed 30 Mar 2016, 7:54, closed)

and say that you're probably annoyed by people who pick up the telephone and say "This is he."
( , Tue 29 Mar 2016, 19:28, closed)

I get that he is correct because the nominative case always comes after the verb to be, but surely it should be "This is I," because the person is speaking about theirself.
I've just realised their is no singular, third person, neuter, reflexive pronoun in English, but I'm sticking with theirself.
( , Sat 2 Apr 2016, 0:38, closed)
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