L.D. Best wrote:
>** Any government which would install Windows on it's
naval warships doesn't know snit about computers.<
One more time: The possessive of "IT" does NOT use
an apostrophe.
Clarence Verge wrote:
>eeuuuuoooo. Knowing that apparantly isn't sufficient
in my case. I didn't even SEE it. Some kind of
selective blindness I guess.<
Get corrective lenses?
L.D. Best wrote:
>If it doesn't *HAVE* an apostrophe, then how can it
be possessive??? For example, "his" is a possessive
pronoun. Would you rather that we should write "hi's" ?<
You might as well ask why "ours" or "theirs" are
possessives, for that matter. These also do not use
apostrophes. It's the way the language has come to be
used.
I don't make up the rules; just enforce the ones
I've been taught.
Michael Hildenbrand wrote:
>Michael (who is learning to talk "suthen" in
anticpation of the move to Georgia in January<
Nah. That's "suhthun".
Jake wrote:
>You don't argue with this language, just obey. It's OK
to question it. And stretch the rules.<
Quite. That last is the important thing. It's one
thing to abuse the language with full knowledge of what
you're doing, but quite another to do so out of
ignorance. You have to know what the rules are before
you can break them creatively.
Terri
Official Grammar Sheriff
