Innovative Usage Thread

[Raphael]

I just stopped myself at the last moment from writing "potential" as "potentional".

[Man in Space]

Has anyone seen usage like present-years-old him's? Is it innovative or rather common?

That'd be weird for me.

That's weird for me too.

100% not weird to me—I occasionally use constructions like this when I’m referring to how I acted in past events (usually the subtext is there’s something contextually relevant).

[Travis B.]

That'd be weird for me.

That's weird for me too.

100% not weird to me—I occasionally use constructions like this when I’m referring to how I acted in past events (usually the subtext is there’s something contextually relevant).

I think we're referring to different things here. "Present-years-old me's" is perfectly okay to me. "Present-years-old him's" is not.

[Man in Space]

That's weird for me too.

100% not weird to me—I occasionally use constructions like this when I’m referring to how I acted in past events (usually the subtext is there’s something contextually relevant).

I think we're referring to different things here. "Present-years-old me's" is perfectly okay to me. "Present-years-old him's" is not.

You are correct; I failed to see the first reply and fixed on the hyperlink.

Still, though, even in something like “X-year-old him’s”, that wouldn’t seem strange to me at all.