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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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don't use the word "myself"
unless you are saying something like "by myself"

"your creative team and I" or even "me and your creative team" are better. otherwise you sound like a dick, regardless of how common it is for people to say that these days.
(, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:27, 1 reply, 16 years ago)
It's 'between your creative team and me'
"your creative team and I" and "me and your creative team" are both grammatically incorrect.

*tuts*
(, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:29, Reply)
still better than myself though
my dislike of that sort of thing was clouding my judgement
(, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:37, Reply)
That's true
I'd rather be thought of a simpleton with no grasp of basic English that a colossal shirter who says 'myself'.
(, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:39, Reply)
Using "myself"
actually makes you look like someone who is trying to be posh, but doesn't understand it. A Mrs Bucket/Bouquet type person
(, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:41, Reply)
indeed it does
worse than myself however is saying yourselves. some of the gargantuan arse-bandits in my office tend to do that.
(, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:47, Reply)
It's a bit 'Colin Hunt' from the Fast Show, is it not.

(, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:49, Reply)
Ugh. Ghastly.

(, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:48, Reply)
Colossal Shirter
Now officially part of the monders lexicon of ace phrases. I recently added dicksplash from a post on here, too. Marvellous.
(, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:44, Reply)
Wrong.
Anything with "me" is incorrect in this context, too, since the subject of the sentence is in the first person; hence the pronoun should be nomonative.
(, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 13:10, Reply)
Could you explain that please?
I'm a scientist and not a linguist, but I had thought that because the 'creative team and Pete' was the object of the sentence he would refer to himself as 'me'.
(, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 13:38, Reply)
It depends on the context.
"The creative team and I thought that this would be a worthwhile project."

"He entrusted the project to the creative team and me."

I was just correcting the "correction".
(, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 13:52, Reply)
Therefore
it should be "I understand that there's going to be some interaction between your creative team and me..."

Or would the original "I understand that there's going to be some interaction between myself and your creative team..." be OK, because it's self-referential?

My leaning is towards the former.
(, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:01, Reply)

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