[ SECRET POST #2097 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2097 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I suspect those people are aiming for (and missing) should've/would've/could've. How they ended up thinking it's 'should OF' is beyond me though. Like you said, have they ever read a book?

One that drives me bonkers is "my husband and I's anniversary" or "my friend and I's vacation". "I's" isn't a word; it's "my"! Freaking morons.

[(Anonymous)]

See, I can understand how this one happens, because the correct usage is "My husband's and my anniversary" which is both counter-intuitive and also sounds funny in spoken English. People, I find, are not used to that level of complexity, where you actually think about each element of a sentence; they tend to regard things as units and not to think about them in any other way. So it is an error that is less offensive to me than others, I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

But "I's" isn't a word - that's what gets me. "My husband and my anniversary" is clunky, I agree, so I think people are better off rewriting that sentence and using "our" rather than trying to make it sound better with "I's".

[(Anonymous)]

This was discussed here:
http://tomatonation.com/vine/the-vine-november-9-2011/
(Fun website to poke around if you're the type to grit your teeth about grammar issues)
And I agree with their verdict of cases like your example being an overcorrection.

[nursethalia]

What I can't stand is when you use the term "my husband's and my (whatever)" and someone corrects you, saying, "It's my husband's and I!". Then when you try to explain that you were correct in your statement, they get insulted and say, "No, my teacher would always correct me and say, "It's always so-and-so and I", never "so-and-so and me!""

They focus on one instance and then forget the rest of the rules of grammar.