--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh, and you weren't "using the term as a > synecdoche," either. Might want to look that > up too. I looked it up, but I don't know if it was correct, 'cuz being too lazy to read Angies whole post. Would Metonymy be a more appropriate term? > And "its" as a possessive never, EVER has an > apostrophe. Judy, don't come down too hard down on her. This would be a typical German thing to do. In German, possessives are written with apostrophes. The problem in Germany right now is, that the English usage has mixed through popular culture so much that both versions are officially accepted now.
