possessives away awhile came back checked email finding benji wald speculative comments _ _ constructions dated may 20th linguist list want say one thing way go benji think great question summary led great interesting ruminating admittedly poorlyunderstood area english language wrote another interested party hope whole thing opened great big worms messier better vindictive enough love seeing formalist theories smashed smithereens real language data crazy enough love chaos love see comments put list anyone even passing interest matter baffling examples cant explain matter little like comment something benji wald article installment memo hmmm call serial email things like wrote friend john inhale wife one john friends wife starting dislike last example right nt think position inhale really helps well maybe know whether asthmatic spell english also note passing another irregular plural take bow something useful one john wife friends vs one john wives es friends cntr one john significant others es friends yeah say difference one john friends wife one john friends wives mean given current anglophonic customs except formally reduce latter one wives former one wife nt like one john friends wife think understand nt like _ one john friends wife _ sounds funny abbreviated phonological form djanz frenz wayf add another z friends seems sound better even modification 1 one john longtime friends frenz z wife evil however 2 wife one john longtime friends evil sounds better either something experts sentence 2 feel almost irresistable urge steal final z friends put john would leave sentence 2 wife one john djanz z longtime friends evil funny looks print grammaticalsounding sentence far far concerned 2 wife friend course john john able get z signed another happily flustered linguist