please don’t heistate to contact Aaron or myself
or would it be:
please don’t hesitate to contact Aaron or I…
any suggestions are appreciated.
thank you!
Hi Hawks25
Please don’t heistate to contact Aaron or myself.
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Please don’t heistate to contact Aaron or me.
I think either one of the above would be fine, however you should keep in mind that the version of your sentence with “myself” is not universally accepted as “correct” usage.
Using “contact Aaron or I” is grammatically incorrect. You need an object pronoun such as “me”, not a subject pronoun (I).
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so are you saying it could either end in:
me or I?
No!
Sorry, Hawks25. In your first post you asked about using “me” or “myself” in the sentence. You added a second post while I was answering your first. I have now edited my first post so that it answers both of your first two posts.
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Hi Yankee,
Thanks for your help on this. I am a bit confused… what is the difference?
Please don’t heistate to contact Aaron or myself.
OR
Please don’t heistate to contact Aaron or myself.
are you saying it is okay to end it in me or myself?
thank you.
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thanks for the clarification!
I’m part of the group that groans whenever I see “contact Aaron or myself.” It’s an example of hypercorrection because people are afraid to say “me.”
I am the only one who can contact “myself.” Anyone else contacts “me.”
I groan even more loudly when I hear “Between you and I” or “Contact Aaron or I.”
“Me” is a perfectly fine word with a lot of legitimate uses. Just because we were corrected so many times as children for saying “My friend and me went to the store” we’re afraid to use it at all now.
Quite a few BrE speakers have effectively reversed “I” and “me”, and will say both e.g. “Me and XYZ did such and such” and “Contact XYZ and I”.
I try to compensate; but they have the numbers. :?
MrP
Hi all
Personally, I don’t use “myself” the way Hawks25 used it in the thread sentence here.
(I admit to being one of the “groaners”. :lol:)
However, that sort of usage is pretty common, and it does seem to have some pretty “official” support. Look at definition 3 for “myself” here:
dictionary.cambridge.org/define. … &dict=CALD
And here is the usage note from Webster’s:
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myself
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Oh, Amy, must I? I’ve embraced “hopefully” to mean “I am hopeful that” but I’m not ready to migrate to that use of “myself” yet.
‘Myself’ is entirely correct, considering the formal context.
No, Jimbo. There is nothing “formal” about avoiding the correct word, which is “me.”
Myself is not posh, not fancy, not formal. I personally find it unacceptable, even if some people are accepting its use there. Until a LOT more people find this acceptable, it does not belong in business writing.
Do you think that “Between you and I” is better in more formal writing too?
The more formal the writing, the more we should aim for correct grammar, not usages that are marginally acceptable.