Typical Tuesday Tidbits and a Tenace

[starboundcanary]

I only have 20 minutes or so to write this, so hopefully I'll get it done and off before Human Event starts

Comments

[anonymous]

Tall Brian should really be the one to say this, but I believe that it is "whose" because it is a possessive. "Who's" is the contraction for "who is". And I'm pretty sure it's "Nick and my baseball". But really, what do I know? I'm just the wife of an English teacher... and the married older sister of Nick's girlfriend...

HA HA!! Geez! That never gets old!

[starboundcanary]

Thanks Liz, that's what I was thinking... but one never can be too sure. Maybe Nick's girlfriend's brother-in-law would care to confirm this?

Indeed, I think it will take a long time for it to get old, much to Nick's chagrin =P.

[voglia_di_notte]

All that in twenty minutes? That's impressive.

I know I probably haven't got the credentials to answer your grammar question authoritatively, but *I* would say "Nick's and my baseball." Alternatively, you could just say "our baseball." :P

Dare I ask what E-sub1 is? (Sorry, I have no idea how to make subscripts...which probably isn't a big surprise.)

[starboundcanary]

E1 is the "nickname" for Evan Startup in our AP Chemistry group Junior year. You see, we had both Evans (Startup and Rap a.k.a. evanopants) in our group, which we aptly named E^2 (nobody else had a group name, so therefore ours was the coolest by default, not to mention its inherent coolness). So, Startup, the older and (quite debatably) wiser of the two Evans got the 1 subscript, and Rap got the 2 subscript.

It's not my fault, I didn't get her mom pregnant.

[evanopants]

Well it's definitely 'whose' as has already been established.

I think that you should avoid that phrase construction at all costs, or at least add in a pronoun or two. Something more along the lines of "the baseball belonging to Nick and I," while more roundabout, makes more overall grammatical sense. The easiest construction is "our baseball," but that hinges on the fact that you have referenced both yourself and your relation to Nick in a previous part of the story.

After further review from the number one graduate of the Kris Urban school of awesome writing (my shift-key pinky got lazy), the candidate for 'most correct way to say it' is "Nick's and my baseball."

First rain of winter
The little monkey too seems to want
A little straw raincoat

Re: It's not my fault, I didn't get her mom pregnant.

[evanopants]

Sometime in between my writing this and reading your page, someone beat me to both answers.

At leasy I am cool enough to have a Sub-2 to my name :)

Re: It's not my fault, I didn't get her mom pregnant.

[starboundcanary]

Ah yes, you snagged a classic E1 quote with the title, how could I forget that one? =P. The haiku is good too... I didn't have my yearbook with me this morning, else I'd have pulled out a few more gems. Another excuse for another blog entry though, I guess.

Thank Kim for her insight as to the grammar conundrum... to quote Wallace, "... many thanks indeed". I'm sure the Kurbanator would be (and is) proud of her ex-Editor-in-Chief.

[noonah]

I am not postive whether it would be "whose" or "who's." I honestly think it could be either, because apostrophe s, can also be possesive.
The second one would be "Nick's and my baseball." The best way to remember which one to use is - when you take away the first part, or the other person, it should still be a grammatically correct sentence. For example: if you take away "Nick's and..." that would either leave "I's baseball" or "my baseball;" therefore, the correct way to phrase that would be "Nick's and my baseball."

Although I do agree with whoever suggested the other ways to phrase it.

There's my two cents worth....

"Never trust a man whose brows meet (don't worry I shave)."

[anonymous]

Peter - It's "whose" because it indicates ownership and "who's" would be "who is." Also, it would be Nick's and my baseball, but I'm really not sure how two people can own a baseball. But I guess that's beside the point. And yes, read "Eats, Shoots and Leaves." It's got to be more entertaining than what you're reading now.

K

The monkey too seems to want a little straw raincoat

[anonymous]

Wow thanks google for stumbling upon this gem. I forgot all the classic quotes that have burst forth from my lips. At the very least you could have included me in the conversations and provided me with a good lawyer. "Knock Knock"