X & I's

[Laurence Horn]

On Dec 19, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Neal Whitman wrote:

> Also, my much-less thorough but possibly relevant blog post:
> http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2005/06/21/whats-mine-and-yours/
>
> The sentence that inspired it: "These people don't have *mine and yours*
> best interest in mind."
>
Now that one could be a relic of the old morphophonological alternation:
"mine eyes", "mine ears" vs. "my leg", "my teeth" ("my/mine heart" could have gone either way, I expect)

No, I'm not serious.

LH

> On 12/19/2013 5:16 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
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>> On Dec 19, 2013, at 1:14 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> Does this look kosher to everyone but me or is this a sign of
>>> Twitterpocalypse?
>>>
>>> "Damn shame. Orval is not only a classic and legendary beer, but one of
>>> @Jason and I's all-time favorites."
>>>
>>> FWIW it did not come from Twitter. It was an isolated sentence from a
>>> post on the shortage of Orval beer (and its potential loss of its
>>> Trappist designation). Jason is the the brother of the author.
>> See my fairly extended discussion of coordinate possessives in Language Log in 2008:
>>
>> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=706
>>
>> arnold
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