Prescriptive Grammar

[bcholmes]

Do you think English could just ditch the reflexive pronouns?

Comments

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

I hear the reflexive pronouns "misused"[1] far more often than I hear them used correctly; I'm suspicsious of words that seem to invite such errors.

[1] yah, yah, I know. English evolves.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I can't off the top of my head think of a sentence you couldn't reconstruct wihout the reflexive pronoun, but I doubt you could convince people to discontinue their use anyway, which makes it a little moot.