Grammar!
I'm almost immune to the usual your/you're, they're/there/their and similar common errors, partly owing to long term exposure and partly because my ire is widely shared.

However, I would appreciate it if the population at large would learn the correct usage of a reflexive pronoun.

'Myself' is the most common example:
Brian* and myself have discussed this.
Speak to Brian or myself if you don't understand.

It's a reflexive pronoun. You shouldn't use it except when the referring the object of the sentence back to the subject, when the object is the subject, or for emphasis. It's not a replacement for 'I' or 'me' and using it makes you sound like a self important ass who doesn't understand the language, not the debonair, self-deprecating charmer you obviously think you are.

*seethes*

Apologies for the excessive bile surrounding simple word use and a great deal of hoping that I haven't screwed up any of the grammar in this post, because that would make me look like a (bigger) tit.

*Brian is a fictional construct and should not be construed as a personal attack. Come to think of it, I don't think I know anyone by that name at all.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 2 May 2008, 11:44, 6 replies)

Ya know...
...I may just be soending my entire day going through these and replying 'I agree' to all of them....
(Beklet is inexplicably angry, Fri 2 May 2008, 11:46, closed)

yes
have a click, Brian.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 2 May 2008, 11:50, closed)

Hmmm...
?

"You shouldn't use it except when the referring the object of the sentence back to the subject"
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 2 May 2008, 11:58, closed)

@Mime
Yes, I shat myself when I read that bit.
(snopesthetruth, Fri 2 May 2008, 12:40, closed)

Thanks...
I read the example before the rest of the story, and am now all annoyed. Seriously, bad grammar has that affect on me; you're reply effected myself pretty impressively- apparently my co-workers are scared of me when angry(thier hiding behind, they're desks saying "your scary when annoyed").

*Goads some more*

Even worse was when I was at school and the teachers got affect/effect the wrong way 'round...
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 2 May 2008, 12:53, closed)

Dagnabit!
Extraneous 'the'. Sorry. That'll teach me not to cut 'n' paste. Or, more likely, not.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 2 May 2008, 14:01, closed)