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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/opini ... rself.html
Fun Grammar Piece from the NYT
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Fun Grammar Piece from the NYT
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
Re: Fun Grammar Piece from the NYT
When I read this piece a few days ago on the Times' website, I though this use of -self was blow back from Indian English, but I didn't have any data. I've since looked around and it seem to be a feature of what we might call polite Colonial English.
The letter at the link
http://www.ashanet.org/projects-new/doc ... 010-11.pdf
appears to be a serious letter of thanks written a few years ago from someone in India to a benefactor in Seattle.
Note the use of "own self" to refer to the writer and "kind self" and "good self" to refer to the addressee.
The letter at the link
http://www.ashanet.org/projects-new/doc ... 010-11.pdf
appears to be a serious letter of thanks written a few years ago from someone in India to a benefactor in Seattle.
Note the use of "own self" to refer to the writer and "kind self" and "good self" to refer to the addressee.
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