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The Summoning (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] insufferableninja@lemdro.id 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"my gf and I's" makes me want to hurl things and scream

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

yeah I'm also jealous of being able to say that

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

prescriptivism detected

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unified grammar and spelling increases the speed, accuracy and universality of communication

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

Except its perfectly understood either way, so in this case does it really do anything?

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why is that? I'm not a native speaker and in German we usually list ourselves last so I've used that before.

[–] cobra89@beehaw.org 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's a rule in English that "and I" is only used when it's the subject not the object of a sentence. (Subject is the thing doing the action, and the object is the thing being acted upon)

The proper way to say this would be "she's coming over me and my girlfriend's movie night" because "she" is the subject in this sentence since she is the one "coming over".

Hope that makes sense.

[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

English doesn't follow its own rules, why should we?