Now, before you start reading today’s story, I’m going to ask you just one question: “Who was theweirdestdude you’ve ever met?” You know, the conversation was completely fleeting, but the memory of it remained for years and years.
And while you’re reminiscing, let me introduce the useru/FatFaceFaster, who, many years ago, unexpectedly took heat from a random guy simply because during small talk he called his wife… well, ‘my wife.’ So let’s move on to the story itself.
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The author of the post once went to a tree nursery for work purposes and encountered a rather strange guy there
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While having a walk across the nursery, the man asked the author how he came to this business – and our hero was being quite talkative
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The point is, at the time of the story, the author owned a small gardening business with his wife – and he told everything to that dude
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The author says that this situation happened years ago – but it’s forever ingrained in his memory
So, the Original Poster (OP) says that the situation he described happened years ago, but every time he remembers it, he can’t help but react like “What the hell was that?”
Of course, the tree nursery guy didn’t know the author’swife, so every time he mentioned her, the original poster said just “my wife.” And since the wife’s role in their business was so important, it’s not surprising that this phrase appeared a couple of times in his speech.
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Well, I guess the key to understanding here will be two things: should the use of possessive pronouns be considered an exclusive designation of ownership, and should the author’s interlocutor be considered aweirdo? As for the first question, the answer is unequivocal – no.
First, possessive pronouns indicate not only ownership, as the Duolingoblog claims– but also a close level of relation or communication with someone. For example, if you say that yesterday you went to ‘your barber’ or nail artist, does this mean that they are in your possession? Of course not.
Secondly, when applied to relatives, it’s not so much a possessive pronoun as a conditional word that ‘cuts off’ a lot of other people who fit the basic definition (mom, dad, wife), but who don’t have a close relationship with you (your mom is also a mother, but she’s not my mom). As for the second question, let’s turn to the opinions of the commenters under the original post.
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