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"This artist's concept shows [...]" F you artists concept. Drawing fantasy pictures in news messages is not ok. + I'm no grammar guy, nor a native speaker, b
by _Codemonkeyism 9y ago
"This artist's concept shows [...]"
F you artists concept. Drawing fantasy pictures in news messages is not ok.
+ I'm no grammar guy, nor a native speaker,
but "artists's" is wrong, isn't it?
- nothrabannosir 9y agoArtist’s is fine (“artist his”), artists’s would be artists’. Depends on how many people worked on the art piece :)
- pgalu 9y agoFor the record, the expansion "... his" is considered "folk etymology": a reanalysis from the Early Modern English period in the language's history. Notice for example how it doesn't make sense for feminine words: "Mary's house". In fact, the possessive "'s" is a leftover from Old English, where the inflectional suffix "es" marked the genitive case.
- nothrabannosir 9y agoYeah it's a mnemonic device, nonetheless quite useful to explain the rule.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoThanks!
- coldtea 9y ago>Drawing fantasy pictures in news messages is not ok. You are aware that astronomers and universities and even NASA regularly collaborate with such artists to create photorealistic simulations of planets, moons, and similar objects, and that lots of information and striving for accuracy goes into making those pictures right? Plus, when they say "artist" they don't mean they asked some Picasso to make a drawing of the object for art's sake, but tasked someone (graphic designer etc) to make a realistic depiction of it given the data they know.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoNot sure what "realistic" means? Has he been there? People take away this artistic images and believe the world is like this, but it isn't. Same with WW2 movies, people believe war is like in these movies, it isn't. But in one case it's hollywood, in the other case it's a news outlet.