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::::OK, the shot in the head example makes sense. But what if I say "Hold on, I'll do it with the oven mitt - I don't want either of our hands to get burned" - or better yet, "I don't want to get either of our butts shot off."? Since there are two of us, there are two butts in danger, thus the plural is called for, no? But that still sounds wrong as "...either of our *times." <span style="font-family:Garamond;">[[User:Zenswashbuckler|<font color="#000">☯.'''Zen'''</font>]][[User_talk:Zenswashbuckler|<font color="#a00">'''Swashbuckler'''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Zenswashbuckler|<font color="#000">.☠]]</font></span> 20:28, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
::::OK, the shot in the head example makes sense. But what if I say "Hold on, I'll do it with the oven mitt - I don't want either of our hands to get burned" - or better yet, "I don't want to get either of our butts shot off."? Since there are two of us, there are two butts in danger, thus the plural is called for, no? But that still sounds wrong as "...either of our *times." <span style="font-family:Garamond;">[[User:Zenswashbuckler|<font color="#000">☯.'''Zen'''</font>]][[User_talk:Zenswashbuckler|<font color="#a00">'''Swashbuckler'''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Zenswashbuckler|<font color="#000">.☠]]</font></span> 20:28, 12 August 2013 (UTC)


:::::Yes, that is the appropriate counter-example to bring up. When the item is governed by "our" or "their" then the plural is correct because the pronoun is correct. They each got shot in ''the head'' vs They got shot in ''their heads''. (My answer "either of our time" was wrong because time here is a [[mass noun]] like "not worth either of our money"--while "times" would mean instances, like "not worth either of our attempts".) [[User:Medeis|μηδείς]] ([[User talk:Medeis|talk]]) 17:37, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
:::::Yes, that is the appropriate counter-example to bring up. When the item is governed by "our" or "their" then the plural is correct because the pronoun is plural. They each got shot in ''the head'' vs They got shot in ''their heads''. (My answer "either of our time" was wrong because time here is a [[mass noun]] like "not worth either of our money"--while "times" would mean instances, like "not worth either of our attempts".) [[User:Medeis|μηδείς]] ([[User talk:Medeis|talk]]) 17:37, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
::::::That clears that up then. Thanks for the assistance. <span style="font-family:Garamond;">[[User:Zenswashbuckler|<font color="#000">☯.'''Zen'''</font>]][[User_talk:Zenswashbuckler|<font color="#a00">'''Swashbuckler'''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Zenswashbuckler|<font color="#000">.☠]]</font></span> 19:11, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
::::::That clears that up then. Thanks for the assistance. <span style="font-family:Garamond;">[[User:Zenswashbuckler|<font color="#000">☯.'''Zen'''</font>]][[User_talk:Zenswashbuckler|<font color="#a00">'''Swashbuckler'''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Zenswashbuckler|<font color="#000">.☠]]</font></span> 19:11, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

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Hi. I largely agree with the relevance of your recent comments in the homophobia thread. But I don't think your adding the "don't mean to pull as s..." comment adds anything to the discussion, and there is a good case to be made its a personal attack and a violation of BLP. I suggest you consider deleting that part of the comment. The ref desks are supposed to be held to the same standards as in these regards as article space. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Medeis (talk • contribs) 15:26, 2013 August 12

I don't agree, but I also don't think it's worth either of our time (either of our times? What's the right grammar there?) to get into a big thing over it. I also concede my own possible bias as one of the upholders, perhaps even partisans, of the retention or expansion of the page I linked to. Thanks for taking time to point out where I might have come off as a dick, if nothing else. ☯.ZenSwashbuckler.☠ 19:38, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I had a question. Is the "belly of a whore" comment in the Tanakh? I remember the story of Onan, but not specifically that phrase. μηδείς (talk) 19:54, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I just spent half an hour trying to track down a source for the quote and for the life of me I can't find a citation. I think it must have just been spoken tangentially by my English teacher in the Bible [as root of English literature] class I took in high school lo these few years ago, but I couldn't tell you where he got it from. And yet before this very hour I would have sworn up and down that it was right there in Genesis. But Onan is struck down without so much as a single spoken word from the LORD, let alone that loaded quotation. Sometimes the malleability of the [my] human mind is just disheartening. ☯.ZenSwashbuckler.☠ 20:28, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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PS, "Either of our time" is correct. Use the singular when that's what applies to the individual. One wouldn't say "we each got shot in the heads". μηδείς (talk) 19:54, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
OK, the shot in the head example makes sense. But what if I say "Hold on, I'll do it with the oven mitt - I don't want either of our hands to get burned" - or better yet, "I don't want to get either of our butts shot off."? Since there are two of us, there are two butts in danger, thus the plural is called for, no? But that still sounds wrong as "...either of our *times." ☯.ZenSwashbuckler.☠ 20:28, 12 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that is the appropriate counter-example to bring up. When the item is governed by "our" or "their" then the plural is correct because the pronoun is plural. They each got shot in the head vs They got shot in their heads. (My answer "either of our time" was wrong because time here is a mass noun like "not worth either of our money"--while "times" would mean instances, like "not worth either of our attempts".) μηδείς (talk) 17:37, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
That clears that up then. Thanks for the assistance. ☯.ZenSwashbuckler.☠ 19:11, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]