Talk:my stories

The following is archived from my usertalkpage. Please continue discussion here prn.—msh210℠ 15:50, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See citations:story. I think my stories is not idiomatic but rather merely my + stories, with story, or at least stories, meaning "soap opera(s)". What do you think?—msh210℠ 22:05, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We were discussing that in the IRC channel, actually. The consensus there was to keep the mention at story but also make a page at my stories for that specific saying. Mike Halterman 22:08, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unofficial WT:RFD strikes again. :-) Is "my stories" much more common than other forms, or something?—msh210℠ 22:13, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's almost exclusively my stories. "My story" is very uncommon, so is "her stories" or others. Mike Halterman 22:14, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough.—msh210℠ 22:16, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not so sure about that. google books:"watching my stories" actually gets fewer hits than google books:"watching her stories"; and while google:"watching my stories" does get more hits than google:"watching her stories", the ratio is a lot less lop-sided than google:"I was watching soaps" vs. google:"she was watching soaps", suggesting that the difference might have more to do with what people say than with what expressions are idiomatic. I don't know if the right headword is (deprecated template usage) story, (deprecated template usage) stories, or (deprecated template usage) one's stories, but to me, (deprecated template usage) my stories definitely seems too specific. —Ruakh_TALK 00:15, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's a specific expression. People say it all the time and I've provided sources. I don't know what else to say. Mike Halterman 17:45, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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The quotations that have been proferred seem to be mentions. All are in quotes; some are immediately defined. DCDuring TALK 18:03, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The first one isn't in quotes. If you had asked me directly instead of coming here, I would have told you that Dominic was helping to find better sources than the ones I've had. I can't help but take this a little personally, like people think I'm making a word up or something. Mike Halterman 18:08, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Don't take offense. It's the term we dislike, not the contributor.—msh210℠ 23:36, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is one of the places we hash these things out. It's not personal; it's just business. And it has a slow fuse: minimum of a month, usually longer. DCDuring TALK 00:13, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As Mike Halterman notes, the first is not in quotation marks. This is real: google books:"watch|watching|watched my stories" subject:fiction has sufficiently more citations. (I don't know, though, whether it's idiomatic: see User_talk:Msh210#my_stories.)—msh210℠ 18:25, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So true. I erred, but it has "soap operas" in brackets immediately after to define it. I didn't do as good a search as yours. There are more than enough good quotes in there. The entry page itself could support three quotes because there won't be too much more content, at least not in the near future. DCDuring TALK 00:22, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Passed, then.—msh210℠ 15:33, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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my stories

Soap operas that a person follows regularly. This entry is redundant because:

We already have the US soap-opera sense at story.
"my" is not unique to this phrase; indeed, the 2005 citation at Citations:my_stories says women often refer to soap operas in the first person singular possessive, "my stories," for instance, or "my soap," or "my show". So if anything, we might need an extra sense at my (and his, her, etc.?).
"my" (or other possessive) is not unique to phrases for soap operas either. Consider "she loves her pop music", "he's watching one of his westerns". It's the same thing.

Equinox ◑ 23:48, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]