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Maddy

Maddy

Shark
#81
#81
Holmes said:
Now, is it Chris's? Thanks for adding plural possessive to the discussion.
I always thought that it was s' just like with plurals; like it would be James' bike or the class' guinea pig.

I really don't know what is correct in this instance.
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I thought what you thought but...I can't find a link now but some style guide told me differently. (MLA or something)

Mo Nose said:
I think that when there is a S at the end of a word, you pluralize with just the apostrophe.
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You don't pluralize with an apostrophe - however if something is pluralized with an s you just add the ' to make it possessive. If it is singular and ends in S you add both the ' and the S.

Or something.

Whatevs. I'm not feeling all that picky this week.


Edit: I found the link
http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html#1
 
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Mo Nose

Mo Nose

Paradox in a pantsuit
#82
#82
Maddy said:
I thought what you thought but...I can't find a link now but some style guide told me differently. (MLA or something)



You don't pluralize with an apostrophe - however if something is pluralized with an s you just add the ' to make it possessive. If it is singular and ends in S you add both the ' and the S.

Or something.

Whatevs. I'm not feeling all that picky this week.
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FUCK.

I meant possessive.

I hate me.
 
Holmes

Holmes

of the Rare Bird Show
#83
#83
dumb middle-of-nowhere elementary school...

Also, I'd like to point out apostrophe usage for stuff like 'em and flippin' and Guns 'n' Roses. I've seen "kill em' all." It's not Guns in Roses or Guns no Roses it's AND, but without the a or d.
Wherever the thing isn't, put the apostrophe.
 
Mr. Kwako

Mr. Kwako

Kerfuffling!
#87
#87
I say "My giant head draws people's awkward stares," but if I knew another Chris and he had an enormous melon, I would say "Chris's ridonculously bulbous noodle gives cats the heebies." Then someone else could whisper to their friend, "Both Chrisses' craniums are flabbergastingly fleshy and meaty."

Maddy, read Holmes's complete sentence.

Mo, earlier I was not snarky re your missingness of the third homonym. I could have said, "And Reenie, if anyone tells you otherwise, there wrong," but I didn't. I'm learning and you're welcome.
 
Mo Nose

Mo Nose

Paradox in a pantsuit
#88
#88
Mr. Kwako said:
I say "My giant head draws people's awkward stares," but if I knew another Chris and he had an enormous melon, I would say "Chris's ridonculously bulbous noodle gives cats the heebies." Then someone else could whisper to their friend, "Both Chrisses' craniums are flabbergastingly fleshy and meaty."
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Chris Elliot ... that would be perfect. I want you and Chris to meet. If those Chris's could meet, I'd squeal. They're great, those Chris's.

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE THE '.
 
El Jefe

El Jefe

latitudinarian
Staff member
#91
#91
Also, use the apostrophe for plurals of letters , and of words when you're talking about the words themselves and not the things the words represent. Cross your t's and dot your i's. No if's, and's or but's.

As for possessives of names ending in "s," every style guide has a different opinion on this. An interesting general rule, according to Eats Shoots & Leaves, is to add an "s" after the apostrophe with modern names ending in "s" (Chris's giant head), but not with ancient Greek or Roman names (Archimedes' giant head), anything ending in the "-iz" sound (Moses' giant head) or Jesus (Jesus' massive cock).
 
Mr. Kwako

Mr. Kwako

Kerfuffling!
#93
#93
Hey, here’s one I won’t win!

The collective unconscious does not refer to an entire population’s belief in something. I know why people want to think that it does. They want to say that one reason Kerry didn’t win is because of the collective unconscious belief that Democrats can’t win, they have a loser mentality that forms the reality that they lose. But that’s not what the term means.

Carl Jung coined the term collective unconscious as one of two unconscious parts of the mind.

The personal unconscious stores everything we have learned or experienced but are not aware of right now. Things in your personal unconscious include which thumb will be on top if you put your hands behind your head and interlace your fingers, a slight your friend gave you that you’ve forgotten about, and the name of the author you quoted in your first term paper where you had to quote your sources.

The collective unconscious stores the archetypes that human minds collectively share, whether we (personally) have learned or experienced them or not, such as the characters of the Commedia Dell’Arte or the moon.

OK, thanks.



Ooh! And also? The word is "ask." Not axe. "Ask."
 
Holmes

Holmes

of the Rare Bird Show
#95
#95
So it's Chris's Steak House but it's James' Vomitorium? I think that's what had confused me in the past.

I still don't get compliment and complement and complimentary and complementary. Plural/single? One is free pretzels and one is saying your haircut looks good?
 
Mr. Kwako

Mr. Kwako

Kerfuffling!
#96
#96
It's Ruth's Chris Steak House. Man, that is one I do not understand. Has anyone ever eaten there? Do they serve steaks cut from the flanks of people named Chris?
 
AndyD

AndyD

Ride The Tiger
#97
#97
Girl, the way you cook a steak remind me 'bout them trips to Ruth Chris
You love my smile no matter how chipped my tooth is

- Fabolous
 
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