Wade Curry wrote:
John H. Robinson, IV([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:10:26PM -0700:
Todd Walton wrote:
On 9/5/06, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/5/06, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Barnes's book
Barnes' book
Equally correct.
No they're not.
I'm sorry. I should have said: I don't believe you're right, Lan. My
belief is based on grammar school teachings and the bloggings of
linguists.
I bet these linguists also say split infinitives are bad. Tell them that
english is not latin.
Thi's linguist think's arguing about apostrophe's is a waste of hi's
time. I've never actually met a linguist who protests split
infinitives, or the like. Usually it's the over-correcting
teachers that do that.
I wasn't going to post to this thread at all, but for the fact that
the reputation of linguists had been maligned!
As for keeping "its" and "it's" straight, I generally think of it
this way: "his" and "hers" and "yours" are posessive pronouns, and
none of them have apostrophes, so the posessive pronoun "its"
doesn't either. Contractions, on the other hand, always use
apostrophes.
Yay! thats what I was looking for:
he,she,it ==> his,hers,its
..jim
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