Technically, my name is plural, so I still s' any labels I may make.
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P.M. Marc - Nov 18, 2002 9:44:48 am PST #334 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Hil R. - Nov 18, 2002 9:47:09 am PST #335 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
So any other English word <tried to think of one, fails> with the same s-situation would have the same deal?
Yep. But I don't think there are any other English words with that pattern. At least, no terribly common ones.
erikaj - Nov 18, 2002 9:47:38 am PST #336 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I think I was always taught 's, but then I have spent a fair amount of time with AP Style, so it could be my thinking is muddy. So, from me it would be, say, Pleiades' Wesley fics.
Jesse - Nov 18, 2002 9:48:35 am PST #337 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ah, but I'd say it's not plural, when it's your name. (Now I have John Malkovich in my head going, "It's my head! ") I mean, unless you contain multitudes. Which is cool too.
Susan W. - Nov 18, 2002 9:50:46 am PST #338 of 10001
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I know it annoys me, and that it's something that's shifted since I started writing, because I know damned well that all my things had ---s' written on them. (I think a shift in rule that affects your name is more annoying than any other.)
Huh. And here I thought I was the one being the dinosaur sticking to an oudated version of the rule, much as still I use the serial comma whenever I can get by with it. It just flows better and looks more symmetrical, dammit! Anyway, I learned the 's unless it's Moses or Jesus (or, presumably, Isis) from Strunk & White, and it's only recently I've noticed the s' usage.
P.M. Marc - Nov 18, 2002 10:06:03 am PST #339 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Ah, but I'd say it's not plural, when it's your name.
Well, it's a bit like being named Castles or Books or Teacups.
Where you aren't, but the name obviously is.
Jesse - Nov 18, 2002 10:08:23 am PST #340 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, that's kind of what I was getting at. I'd use Teacups-the-name as singular.
Jesse - Nov 18, 2002 10:08:43 am PST #341 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Note to self: possibly name child "Teacups."
Am-Chau Yarkona - Nov 18, 2002 10:23:54 am PST #342 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Certainly in Bridget Jones' Diary they use s'.
Nuh-uh. At least in the version here in the US, it's "Jones's"
I suspect that s's is Us, and s' is British, then.
Note to self: possibly name child "Teacups."
And I'll call mine "Biscuits".
erikaj - Nov 18, 2002 10:26:40 am PST #343 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Hey, everyone. Just posting to share what my writing instructor called a "Kinko's moment". That is to say, that the only time you should feel completely satisfied with your work is dragging it home from the copy place. I feel like I rock right now. Of course, given my track record, that should last...a minute and a half. Thanks to everyone who gave advice. Taking a moment...and we're done.