Timeline for How to say something like "my company" without sounding like I own the company?
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| Aug 30, 2016 at 23:13 | comment | added | gnasher729 | For the two different situations, you would say "My company ws sold", or "I sold my company". I hope nobody has a story like "my employer went on holiday, got kidnapped, and was subsequently sold". | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 12:19 | comment | added | TecBrat | Yes, "my employer" is very different from "my company". | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 11:03 | comment | added | nigel222 | @TecBrat "My employer went bust" is the short unambiguous formulation. | |
| Aug 30, 2016 at 1:28 | comment | added | Jay | I presume @nelson is alluding to C.S. Lewis's book "Screwtape Letters", in which a demon, discussing how demons try to confuse people, says "We teach them not to notice the different senses of the possessive pronoun - the finely graded differences that run from 'my boots' through 'my dog', 'my servant', 'my father', 'my master', and 'my country' to 'my God'. They can be taught to reduce all these senses to that of 'my boots', the 'my' of ownership." | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 9:50 | comment | added | TecBrat | I think the exception is "The company I work for." Consider "My company went bankrupt." vs "The company I work(ed) for went bankrupt." | |
| Aug 29, 2016 at 2:27 | vote | accept | clickbait | ||
| Aug 29, 2016 at 1:18 | comment | added | Nelson | "My" has a VERY wide range of meaning. It can range from "my boot" to "my God". | |
| Aug 28, 2016 at 16:15 | history | answered | BuffyOverflow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |