Re: [NTLK] OT: Whence "genitive s" (='s)? (Was: AUGUST UPDATE)

From: Philip Bennett (pbnt_at_mac.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 19:03:35 EDT


Sorry, the last sentence should read "Come on people, IT'S just simple
grammar... Mea culpa.

I'm going to read my Oxford Dictionary for thirty minutes as penance.

On 8/2/02 5:51 PM, "Philip Bennett" <pbnt_at_Mac.com> wrote:

>
> That sounds great, Ed. Could I get one of those for my home (screening out
> stupid people, I mean). Of course online " THERE is THEIR problem THEY'RE
> afflicted with" Then we also have "yours" and "your's" Come on people, it
> just simple grammar and spelling, not Computer Science ;-)
>
> On 8/1/02 5:31 PM, "Ed Kummel" <tech_ed_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> ...> I was developing a phone queue system for a customer.
>> We were laying out the menuing system and I was going
>> for simple and easy to navigate. When I presented my
>> idea, it was immediatly thrown out. The owner of the
>> company said "we deal in a highly technical field
>> (PDAs) If the caller can't get through a menuing
>> system, then they don't get to talk to a human, they
>> can leave a voicemail." So, that means that they
>> wanted to use a phone menuing system to weed out
>> stupid people...If you can't navigate a phone menuing
>> system, then you don't get to play with a PDA...simple
>> as that!
>> Ed
>> web/gadget guru
>> http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
>> http://npds.tek-ed.com (my NPDS server and it's new
>> subdomain)
>>
>> --- "Gerstein, Sam" <Sam.Gerstein_at_Streamserve.Com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Chris,
>>> I think the absence of the genitive 's is not really
>>> that widespread. I do
>>> see it dropped sometimes, but for example I don't
>>> think I've seen it in
>>> print. What I /do/ regularly see, even in print and
>>> once /carved in stone/,
>>> is the incorrect use of the genitive 's to make a
>>> plural. Constructions
>>> like "CD's for sale" and "used car's" annoy the heck
>>> out of me, and they're
>>> everywhere! :-P
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>> =====
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>> guilty of Stealing network programming"
>> - Jamie Keller CEO/Chairman Turner Broadcasting
>>
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