• SmoothOperator@lemmy.world
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            22 days ago

            True, but I, at least, had to do a double take. I’m not a native speaker, but it’s much the same in my native language.

            Being understandable feels like the minimum ask of language, isn’t it better to also make it easy to read to a broad audience?

            Not saying you have to be a dick about it, just that prescriptivism has its benefits.

      • insufferableninja@lemdro.id
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        22 days ago

        when you say something belongs to you, you don’t call it “I’s thing” - you call it “my thing”.

        if it belongs to your friends Jim and Bob, it’s “Jim and Bob’s thing” or “Jim’s and Bob’s thing”. likewise, when it belongs to your gf and yourself, it makes more sense to say “my gf and my” or “my gf’s and my”, rather than inventing a brand new word that sounds so very stupid.

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      23 days ago

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

      • labhras@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        23 days ago

        I’s is not the actual possessive form. It would be like saying “ichs filmnacht” instead “meine filmnacht”

        In English, the proper way to say it would be “my gf’s and my annual bad movie night”

        It’s funny; when I was learning German, I thought genitive was so weird, but it honestly makes so much more sense than how we do it in English

        #MakeEnglishGermanicAgain

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        23 days ago

        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.