The git I sit across a desk from at work
...uses reflexive pronouns like this all the fucking time.

Along with dramatically overusing "actual" and "actually". So he ends up coming out with stuff like "If you could actually send ourselves a copy of the actual physical actual item, we would them be able to actually quote an actual price to yourselves, at the end of the day."

There must be some sort of low rent business school that teaches idiots that this is formal business English because pretty much every shop floor Nigel that's been shifted to a job dealing with suppliers or customers seems to suddenly adopt this peculiar way of speaking.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:32, Reply)