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[–] relative_iterator 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if they split up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That relationship loses energy every time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Soon it will be a lead relationship.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It actually serves fission chips.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They're delicious, but I should stop eating. I'm already at critical mass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That one made laugh way too hard!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I heard that place is the bomb.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They have a number counter at that restaurant that updates every time that joke is made.

(...wait for it...)

But it's actually a count-DOWN.

[–] renrenPDX 2 points 1 year ago

The Final CountDowwwwwwwwn

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

What native English speaker can possibly think that "my wife and I's" is correct?

[–] FlagonOfMe 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People who had bad teachers and learn it's always "friend and I", or that's all they remember.

But I don't get how they don't know it's wrong when it just sounds so wrong.

[–] infinitejones 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The grammar Nazis will hate me for this but I'm going with "A friend of mine and my wife's" as the least horrible way of saying it.

"A friend of mine booked a table..." - all good

"A friend of my wife's booked a table..." - yep - and check here if you don't like "wife's": https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/a-friend-of-his-wifes.2438592/

"A friend of my wife's and mine booked a table..." - nope

"A friend of mine and my wife's booked a table..." - works for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, what is the correct way to write this? "my wife and my friend booked a table" makes it sound like the wife was also involved in booking the table, whereas the original made it clear that just the friend booked the table.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd go with "My wife's and my friend" but I'm no expert.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like that, but I still find the original, "wrong" form more charming and, dare I say, elegant.

I get that it's not right, and I'm usually irked a bit by incorrect grammar, but in this case it seems to me to be the simplest way to convey the idea, and it flows quite nicely too. For me there's less resistance when reading "my wife and I's friend"; no slow down, no double take, which is not something I can say of the alternatives.

I think we should just pretend that it's correct until it is; you can do that with language, you know.

Some comments here seem incredulous that someone wouldn't know it was wrong. Maybe they did know and it just didn't seem important enough to care. Especially if the "correct" form is worse!

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[–] snota 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe 'A friend of my wife and I'?

[–] Lepsea 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe the "friend" is an apple products

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My wife and I have a friend who booked a table"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The comments are reaching critical mass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

the nukes they built were fission bombs, but...