Timeline for "Your and my [something]" vs "Yours and my..."
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| Jun 22, 2022 at 8:16 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 8, 2013 at 22:56 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | I don't see why “your and my native languages” should be wrong. Both 'your' and 'my' are possessive determiners, and nouns can be modified by several determiners separated by various conjunctions: “the red pen and the blue pen”, if combined, become “the red and blue pens”. I would rather say that your no. 3 is incorrect, since subsuming requires familiar material; i.e., only the second language, not the first, can be subsumed. Cf. “the red one and the blue pen”. | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 21:18 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I never actually mentioned it in my question, but you're quite right that I personally would definitely use singular language here. The original had plural - I left it like that in my quote partly because I just did a "cut & paste", but mainly because I didn't want to complicate my question with what I thought (-lessly assumed?) was an unrelated issue here. It now seems likely these are two aspects of a single (singular?) issue. | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 21:18 | history | edited | Gnawme | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 23, 2012 at 21:08 | history | answered | Gnawme | CC BY-SA 3.0 |