Posted on 03/30/2005 8:30:57 AM PST by Vision Thing
Senor Montoya, I need no help with that reference!
My hangup (I've been called a word Nazi) is "comprise" vs "compose".
I'm with you on the insure/ensure thing. I have a lot of fun with it at work, to be honest.
I also like telling people that they are "quite the gourmand" and then watching as they take it as a compliment.
The apostrophe as denoting a possessive tense is not something anyone under sixty is really going to take note of.
I cringe when I see things like "this is Jess's car" because the extra "s" creates a contraction. But using the MS rule of adding a single "s" without the apostrophe to denote possession does not work with a name such as 'Jess' and it therefore invalidates the 'rule'.
According to MS the possessive tense for the proper noun "Jess" would be "Jesss" or "Jess's" when the correct usage would be "Jess'" with the additional "s" pronounced when spoken but not added to the written word.
I was taught English and grammar in a Catholic school and the nuns veritably beat these rules into me.
And most folks who are over sixty will know these rules by heart because they went to school before liberalism made a mockery of education in this country.
Mr. Gates insists that punctuation marks fall inside quotation marks. We "struggle". We "fight." I get out my grammar books. Who knows the answer?! (!?)
"The possessive use, such as its' or Bobs' , is obliterated by spel cheker."
Uh, what the heck is "its'?" Last time I checked, "its" is the possessive of "it" (as in "Look at that house - its roof is on fire!"), which "it's" is a contraction of "it is."
Spongebob can fix that.
"Bobs' car" implies that you have more than one Bob.
That can be true. And then it is plural possessive.
My understanding is that puntuation falls inside quotes, however in the IT world quotes are used to designate a literal string of data, and thus most IT people put it outside of the quotes so as not to have to remember two ways to use quotation marks.
For example, imagine an instruction manual that said:
At the login prompt, enter your username and the new password, "MSsucks."
versus
At the login prompt, enter your username and the new password, "gatessucks".
The traditional way will prevent you from logging in.
"Bob's car" means the car that is possessed by Bob.
Did you ever diagram a sentence? Each part of the sentence must be able to stand by itself in the implied tense.
"Bob's car is green"
Okay. So when you isolate the word "Bob's" what does it mean?
"Bob is" or is it a noun modifier with the noun being "car"?
The rule of contraction dictates that "Bob's" must be a contraction.
Granted, common usage is eliminating this rule but it is never the less a rule of our language that contractions and possessive tense are not denoted with the same usages.
"Bob's a great guy." would be an example of proper usage.
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don' yo be callin me no homo mofo i come bus a cap off in yo ass.
Autocorrect really screws with my typing. I don't even realize teh mistaks it ficx es. I dont
' know hat I'sd do without it.
It depends. Are you quoting a sentence? If so, the associated punctuation goes within the quotes. Bill Gates says, "Do it my way!"
If you are using "scare quotes", or "terminology", the punctuation goes outside.
Oh, geez... look if I see the little green line it mentally asks me a question -- is what I just wrote awkward or obviously flawed? Then it's up to me, not to make the little green line go away, but to craft the sentence the way I want it to sound when read.
Doesn't matter anyway. Most of my typing is done here in this little courier text box, and I'm typing in my html by hand.
couldn't resist...
Uh-huh, and if you said "Bob's a car," it would also be correct, but silly, unless, of course, your car is named Bob!
YEs. Isn't the apostrophe after the word limited to the posessive with words that end in "S" anyway? Like... Alexis' car.
Yeah, but he's probably running MS Word on that Mac OS X.
If he's a Mac person, he can't escape the long reach of Redmond.
"Uh-huh, and if you said "Bob's a car," it would also be correct, but silly, unless, of course, your car is named Bob!"
Bob's a silly name for a car. Mine's named Xerxes. That's the '99 Jimmy. The beater, a '95 Dodge Shadow, is called various things, depending on its willingness to start that particular day...
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