'Why We Fight'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Huh, there are semi-identical twins.
Huh! We were just talking about fraternal v. identical twins at work, since my coworker looks just like the twin she was always told was fraternal, and I have identical-twin friends who don't necessarily look that much alike. Weird.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALLYSON!!!
If you have a semi-identical twin, are they more likely to be evil? (Or good, if you're evil?)
My office just had a long debate as to whether this headline is correct: [link]
The issue was the plural possessive. No one -- and I mean NO ONE -- except me thought it was correct.
I won.
The issue was the plural possessive.
How would you pronounce that? Edwardseses?
My office just had a long debate as to whether this headline is correct: [link]
I was confused for a second - then I remembered that there's two of them. Then it seemed correct to me.
Of course you did, Steph.
Although, it makes me laugh when my cousin (who has a plural-sounding last name, too) sends emails like "The Edwardseseses's new address!"
No one -- and I mean NO ONE -- except me thought it was correct.
It's totally correct!
::sits with Tep in the Grammar and Punctuation Matters! Corner::
Of course it's correct. There are two people who are named Edwards (Edwardses) and they possess a choice (Edwardses')
I think I'd heard them mention that on a NPR show I linked to a while back. My identical twin cousins don't look as much alike as they used to anymore. I think the older twins get, the more they look different. One of the twins, now has twin boys who look enough alike that at Mimi's wake, my aunt, who spends more time with them than anyone save their parents, still has to scrutinize or ask to figure out which is Luke and which is Logan.
ION: I had some sort of stomach virus thing last night that didn't give me relief until Mr. Jane brought home pills at 5:30 this morning. I feel like a shell and really really want coffee, but the acid skeeers me to death.