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CS: Me instead of myself
Noticed this a couple of times the past few weeks - characters referring to themselves as me instead of myself such as Gemma "I 'm proud of me" and am sure there was one tonight. It doesn't sound right in a first person sentence even in informal speech can the CD writers please jack it in.
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It's dialect, it's common to hear 'me' instead of 'my' or 'myself' in the North West. Corrie are simply writing according to their setting.
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Noticed this a couple of times the past few weeks - characters referring to themselves as me instead of myself such as Gemma "I 'm proud of me" and am sure there was one tonight. It doesn't sound right in a first person sentence even in informal speech can the CD writers please jack it in.
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To be fair, Gemma's not likely to know or even care about grammar.
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Why should Corrie 'jack it in'? We Up North do talk like this. What needs jacking in is people who feel the need to belittle others just because they talk different.
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It's not about belittling people. I live up north and don't hear it very often - I'm sure there's people who do talk like it though.
![]() I thought that when Gemma said "I'm proud of me" the words were supposed to reflect the fact that she's not the most educated of characters and is the sort of mistake she'd make in her grammar, |
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