Talk:off with one's head

RFC discussion: October 2015–February 2016
The alternative forms should be redirects and the pronunciation is messy. -- Romanophile ♞ (contributions) 05:41, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Clean now? ~Eloquio (talk) 20:30, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * While we're at it, shouldn't this be at off with someone's head? We usually use one to indicate the same person as the subject of the sentence. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 20:44, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Renard Migrant (talk) 23:45, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yup. DCDuring TALK 00:39, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I took the bold liberty of moving the page. I have not, however, changed all the links that link to that page (they all redirect anyway, of course, so I haven't broken them), in case there was disagreement. If no one has changed them by tomorrow, I will do so. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 05:07, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm happy with the move, but the pronunciation now doesn't match the page title. Do we even need pronunciation for such a term, when it is just the pronunciation of the individual words strung together? Keith the Koala (talk) 11:59, 2 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I created an entry with "someone" and it was modified (CodeCat, I think? not sure) and since then I haven't dared to use "someone", and only use "one". Is there a written rule about the pronoun to use? Equinox ◑ 00:06, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The practice as I (and apparently Angr and the people agreeing with him above) understand it is that if the subject of the sentence is doing something to himself/herself, the placeholder is "one", whereas if the subject is doing it to someone else, the placeholder is "someone": beat one's head against a stone wall ("he was beating his [own] head against a stone wall"), but take someone's point ("he took her point", not normally "he took his own point"). Entries aren't always consistent, and sometimes "someone" is dropped (take someone to task→take to task). - -sche (discuss) 00:56, 3 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Let's have a stupid boring vote to confirm this. I feel really good about it. love, Equinox ◑ 00:58, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

I think that it’s fine now. Closed. -- Romanophile ♞ (contributions) 09:16, 8 February 2016 (UTC)