"Us ourselves"

[Wilson Gray]

>From Slashdot:

"[T]hey [PayPal] didn't respond to _us ourselves_ at all. [We had to
hire a lawyer.]"


I've never seen "us ourselves" before. Indeed, all cases of -self
/-selves in this kind of construction seem rather odd. But, again,
maybe that's just me.

-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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 -Sam'l Clemens

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