# Myself loves Yourself

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myself-loves-yourself/362180>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 26, 2006, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myself-loves-yourself/362180 "2006-06-26T10:07:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myself-loves-yourself/362180/21 "2006-06-28T11:07:42Z")

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> [@amarinth](#):
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> I hear it all the time - usually when someone is making a bad attempt to be formal or sound thoughtful.  
> It also shows up on reality shows - it’s my biggest grammar pet peeve.

Hm, well us English speakers in Japan are still on the straight path so…

**Come to the Northern hemisphere friends, see the girls of Okinawa! Just leave the vegimite!**

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**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/myself-loves-yourself/362180/22 "2006-06-28T12:32:55Z")

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I’ve mainly noticed it in correspondence when people are trying to sound formal or businesslike. In spoken exchanges, I don’t recall hearing any usage as described in the OP and those particular examples would annoy me because they sound so wrong.

That said, I do agree that people will often say “I’m fine. Yourself?”, and I would not be annoyed by it because it’s so commonplace that I wouldn’t notice or think it was incorrect. I also wouldn’t have a problem with the Kramer example. Now I’m wondering if I commonly make this error myself? Hehe.

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