Talk:Possessive me
When used[edit]
To my mind, "me" is simply a pronunciation spelling of [mi] when that is used as the weak form of [maɪ]. I've never heard anyone using "me" as the strong form; "my" is standard there. Thus:
- I'll do [mi] best. (weak)
But
- Hey! That's [ˈmaɪ] pint, get your own! (strong)
It is highly dubious to suggest that "me" as used in the first sentence is the same word as the object pronoun me in:
- Give it to me!
Unless there are actually people who would say
- Hey! That's [ˈmi] pint, get your own! (strong)
jnestorius(talk) 23:37, 9 November 2006 (UTC) Possibly in NI, I can't remember anybody saying that explicitly but I can imagine someone saying it (I come from NI). 79.72.72.15 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:49, 19 October 2009 (UTC).
- People in Yorkshire and north-east England pronounce it 'me', but it's considered to be colloquial. I'd consider this to be a difference in pronunciation. Regardless, I don't think it deserves its own section.--Jcvamp (talk) 21:24, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- I tend to agree with Jnestorius that this is a matter of stress and pronunciation rather than a separate linguistic entity from 'my'. Can't find much documentation for "possessive me"; there is this but it's not much. pablo 17:16, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
- The same thought as yours, Jnestorius, is presented here (near the bottom of the section), but there it is stated whereas you question it. 71.214.211.10 (talk) 21:39, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
delete or redirect?[edit]
Well, it must be one or the other. Either simply get rid of this nonsense (we don't have articles on variant pronunciations of other words) or redirect to I (pronoun). SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 17:34, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
- Redirect if anything. 'gonna' redirects to Going-to future (not sure why we have that page either, this isn't a spectacular phenomenon in language by any means), 'wanna' slow redirects to Relaxed pronunciation. ALTON .ıl 06:31, 8 December 2010 (UTC)