Louise Milligan might have a reason for a beef with the Aus, but she could learn how to use ‘myself’ correctly…
“Two years ago, myself and my former boss, Sally Neighbour, were subjected to a bewildering and vile attack by The Australian.”
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Your Grammar is dead.
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I agree but people have been doing that for over a decade now “Myself and the boys are pleased with the win…”
Doesn’t make it right, and it grates every time.
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Yes, LM, as a professional whose working “tools” are words, should know better.
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I used to tell off a workmate when she’d use myself instead of me or I, which were more appropriate.
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Joan Armatrading used all three words - Me, Myself, I.
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Well, she can consider herself ticked off too.
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She was a nice old girl. I hope grandads ok.
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interesting quirk of life:
you know who hate grammar pedants more than anyone else on the planet does?
linguists
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Those cunning linguists just trying to cover up for their own deficiencies.
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When your suggestion is essentially “it’d actually be good if we made more people live in poverty”, what exactly do you expect the public response to that statement to be?
The response from what I saw was really non-partisan. It was a general consensus of “how does go ■■■■ yourself sound?”.
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*anymore
Edit: senior “journalist” ffs.
very brave to be the one that stands up in today’s world and asks “what if things were even more sht”
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I actually read that article, for my sins. It’s pretty tortured. Basically it’s ‘if you panned Gurner for the struff he was saying about unemployment, you’re literally the same as the people lying about Marcia Langton’ though of course sha manages to avoid literally calling them liars.
It’s very standard cowardly journalist stuff, the sort of thing we see in the USA when they’re covering Trump. The belief that journalism exists to report equally on what everyone says regardless of its honesty, sanity, or good faith, and the base assumption that absolutely any atrocity is permissible in politics, government, or business except rudely criticising people.
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Proof that class warfare exists, and who’s winning
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Actually I want to know what this “world view of a Queensland Cop” thing is?
Grift?
Racism?
Incompetence?
That’s the only things that come to mind.
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I can’t imagine it’d be much different to the world view of a Grand Dragon