Showing posts with label paradigm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paradigm. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 August 2011

Theirselves and meself

As you know, the paradigm of reflexive pronouns in English is as follows:
myself
yourself
himself/herself/itself
ourselves
yourselves
themselves
What I had never noticed until yesterday was that it's not logical. No surprise, we are talking about English, a language not known for its logicality (not that any languages are, particularly). But I'd never spotted the illogicality in this context before.