First of all, no one got the joke "have" vs possive.
Second, anyone attempting to read what I write should feel pleased if it
makes any sense at all. One of the things I live with is FMS, and one
of the problems with it is short circuits in my brain -- meaning I'll
think one word but type another [cognitive vs kinetic], leave words out
entirely, etc.
If you can understand what I'm trying to say, that's good. Don't pick
me apart with grammatical rules I used to teach. "I" know the rules but
most certainly don't have the time to read for grammar or spelling when
it comes to posts here.
I'd have written a shorter response but I didn't have time.
l.d.
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:41:07 -0400, Terri FitzSimons wrote:
> 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
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