[Ads-l] more fun with pronouns

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Aug 31 03:00:01 UTC 2015


On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> "Mick and I's relationship"


Thank goodness that he's had a proper education in the proper use of
English. Otherwise, he might well have said, "me and Mick's relationship."

Youneverknow.

[My relationship with Mick is (such that)... ? What's a speaker to do?]

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-Wilson
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