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Re: Innovative Usage Thread
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2024 4:46 am
by Raphael
I just stopped myself at the last moment from writing "potential" as "potentional".
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2024 7:49 pm
by Man in Space
Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2024 7:49 pm
zompist wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2024 4:55 pm
Zju wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2024 4:44 pm
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).
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2024 7:54 pm
by Travis B.
Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2024 7:49 pm
Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2024 7:49 pm
zompist wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2024 4:55 pm
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.
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2024 8:05 pm
by Man in Space
Travis B. wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2024 7:54 pm
Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2024 7:49 pm
Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Nov 28, 2024 7:49 pm
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.