Is Chris Webber's grammar correct?

[Akrazotile]

C Web frequently when referring to a player doing something by "himself" will instead say "hisself."

And my initial reaction is to cringe bc it sounds like someone with poor, ghetto grammar talking, and I hate to see C Web come off that way.

But in analyzing it... It actually seems most appropriate. For we say "my self" when referring to our own persons, not "me self" (unless youre irish/scottish). "Him self" actually doesnt even make any sense. "Who's going to have the last slice of pizza?" My self. Or his self. Not me self, or him self. The "my" or "his" indicate possession of the self.



I dunno. I feel like most people whom I hear speak articulately and use proper grammar say "himself" but I don't see how/why that wouod be correct. "Hisself" actually seems more logical.

[NumberSix]

C Web frequently when referring to a player doing something by "himself" will instead say "hisself."

And my initial reaction is to cringe bc it sounds like someone with poor, ghetto grammar talking, and I hate to see C Web come off that way.

But in analyzing it... It actually seems most appropriate. For we say "my self" when referring to our own persons, not "me self" (unless youre irish/scottish). "Him self" actually doesnt even make any sense. "Who's going to have the last slice of pizza?" My self. Or his self. Not me self, or him self. The "my" or "his" indicate possession of the self.



I dunno. I feel like most people whom I hear speak articulately and use proper grammar say "himself" but I don't see how/why that wouod be correct. "Hisself" actually seems more logical.
himself

[outbreak]

Hisself is listed as a dialectal variation for himself. While it is an official word, most would deem it grammatically incorrect.

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But in analyzing it... It actually seems most appropriate. For we say "my self" when referring to our own persons, not "me self" (unless youre irish/scottish). "Him self" actually doesnt even make any sense. "Who's going to have the last slice of pizza?" My self. Or his self. Not me self, or him self. The "my" or "his" indicate possession of the self.

I dunno. I feel like most people whom I hear speak articulately and use proper grammar say "himself" but I don't see how/why that wouod be correct. "Hisself" actually seems more logical.

You're actually correct in some ways. It's one of the flaws in the english language. I'm not sure why "himself" is even used or where it originated. But there is one possibility..
'his' 'hisself' --- mine .. you don't use mineself so I can see why you would not use hisself
'him' 'himself' --- There is nothing for this on 'me' side so you end up using 'me', similarly himself makes no sense either
'he' 'heself' (heself is not logical but I threw it on) --- me

^^^ It just makes my head hurt trying to make it work logically for different situations.. I try not to use himself -- I stick to using his or him as much as possible. 'himself' just doesn't sound right to me. Some situations you have to use it and cannot make it work without it, http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/himself

English actually has many flaws that defy logic.

[Tarik One]

He grew up in Detroit. What do you expect?

[Patrick Chewing]

Ebonics. The official language of the ghetto.


It's better than Charles Barkley at least. Barkley's lingo is a mix of incoherent babbling due to dementia and animal noises.

[Tarik One]

Just like Isiah Thomas' constant pronunciation of "Free Thos"

"In this stage of the game, you gotta make your free thos"