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Pedantry: "Whom to sue", not "Who to sue". (Pedantic tl;dr: I refuse to put the punctuation inside the quotes. I consider that an outright bug in English and i
by DoofusOfDeath 7y ago
Pedantry: "Whom to sue", not "Who to sue".
(Pedantic tl;dr: I refuse to put the punctuation inside the quotes. I consider that an outright bug in English and it needs to be stamped out by rebellion.)
- gerbilly 7y agoIf you want a bug in english, then how about: "Petting Dave's cat", "Going toMartha's Vineyard", "Using its eyes." (no apostrophe) What a stupid idea to make "it's" stand for "it is"
- pwinnski 7y ago"Using his eyes," "using her eyes," and "using its eyes" have a certain parallelism. Comparing proper nouns to pronouns has more problems than a missing apostrophe: note the lack of capitalization in the pronoun. Horrors!
- jfk13 7y agoNot a bug, IMO. In general, we have separate individual words for possessive pronouns; we don't create them by adding the possessive suffix to a nominative pronoun: I -> my (not I's), you -> your, he -> his, she -> her, it -> its, etc. "It's" is just the standard use of apostrophe to indicate a contraction.
- DoofusOfDeath 7y agoRegarding the apostrophe for possessive nouns in English, I came across this: [0] [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/history-and-use-of-the-apostrophe https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/history-and-us...
- PeCaN 7y agoprogrammers must be stopped