when you say something belongs to you, you don’t call it “I’s thing” - you call it “my thing”.
if it belongs to your friends Jim and Bob, it’s “Jim and Bob’s thing” or “Jim’s and Bob’s thing”. likewise, when it belongs to your gf and yourself, it makes more sense to say “my gf and my” or “my gf’s and my”, rather than inventing a brand new word that sounds so very stupid.
“my gf and I’s” makes me want to hurl things and scream
prescriptivism detected
Unified grammar and spelling increases the speed, accuracy and universality of communication
Except its perfectly understood either way, so in this case does it really do anything?
True, but I, at least, had to do a double take. I’m not a native speaker, but it’s much the same in my native language.
Being understandable feels like the minimum ask of language, isn’t it better to also make it easy to read to a broad audience?
Not saying you have to be a dick about it, just that prescriptivism has its benefits.
yeah I’m also jealous of being able to say that
Apart from hating the abbreviation, what’s wrong with this? It sounds somewhat grammatically correct.
when you say something belongs to you, you don’t call it “I’s thing” - you call it “my thing”.
if it belongs to your friends Jim and Bob, it’s “Jim and Bob’s thing” or “Jim’s and Bob’s thing”. likewise, when it belongs to your gf and yourself, it makes more sense to say “my gf and my” or “my gf’s and my”, rather than inventing a brand new word that sounds so very stupid.