Today, an email passed in front of my eyes. It was sent by an Important Person to the whole of a large organisation.
The tone was conversational, but with an air of gravitas.
Please be aware that myself, Person X and Person Y have moved offices to…
I’m sure you’ve seen this kind of thing before…
The problem, though, is that in an attempt to maintain a perceived formality, the author has hyper corrected, and changed a correct grammatical form to a… ‘non-traditional’ one.
If we remove the other subjects in the sentence, we’re left with:
Please be aware that myself have moved offices to…
Myself have made a mistake.
