Re: Cases, again

On Friday, March 19, 2004, at 08:37  PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:09:29PM +0000, Ray Brown wrote:
>> I've even heard - I kid you not - "You must come to Richard and I's
>> house sometime."
>
> Yes, well, the possessive of conjoined nouns has been known to confound
> many a locutor, rather understandably IMHO.  The correct version of the
> above is presumably "Richard's and my", but we're used to sticking the
> possessive at the very end of a noun and the speaker is thinking of
> "Richard and I/me" as a single noun unit.  So in regular speech, as
> opposed to careful writing, I'm not at all surprised to hear things
> like
> "Richard and I's" or "Richard and my" or - my favorite of all time and
> actually heard by me, albeit not with the name "Richard" - "Richard
> and my's".
> -Mark

I use forms along the lines of "Richard and my's" all the time :-P


-Stephen (Steg)
  "living in captivity it's hard to know what's real
   you can't take what they give you
   but you get what you can steal
   and half the world is cold and hard
   but all the world's a stage
   and this is my performance growing up inside a cage"
      ~ 'growing up inside a cage' by jason spitz