If you have a semi-identical twin, are they more likely to be evil? (Or good, if you're evil?)
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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.
tommyrot - Mar 26, 2007 9:51:12 am PDT #8942 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Steph L. - Mar 26, 2007 9:51:56 am PDT #8943 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.
Tom Scola - Mar 26, 2007 9:54:46 am PDT #8944 of 10001
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The issue was the plural possessive.
How would you pronounce that? Edwardseses?
tommyrot - Mar 26, 2007 9:55:09 am PDT #8945 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
Jesse - Mar 26, 2007 9:55:20 am PDT #8946 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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!"
Amy - Mar 26, 2007 9:55:27 am PDT #8947 of 10001
Because books.
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::
Vortex - Mar 26, 2007 9:55:58 am PDT #8948 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Of course it's correct. There are two people who are named Edwards (Edwardses) and they possess a choice (Edwardses')
Daisy Jane - Mar 26, 2007 9:58:44 am PDT #8949 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
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.
Steph L. - Mar 26, 2007 10:00:40 am PDT #8950 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
There are two people who are named Edwards (Edwardses) and they possess a choice (Edwardses')
You would not believe how many people -- EDITORS, no less -- had a problem with that. The biggest problem they had, actually, was accepting that you use -es to make a name or noun that ends in -s into a plural noun.
I kept countering with "Well, how would YOU make it plural in a way that makes it clear and correct?"
"....Well...well...it just LOOKS wrong!"
Okay, *that's* convincing.
Daisy Jane - Mar 26, 2007 10:02:11 am PDT #8951 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I was going to say. What was the other choice? Edwardse's? Edwardian choice? WHAT!?!
OTOH: I do remember seing a headline referencing just Elizabeth that used Edwards', and not liking it because I'm a Strunk and White girl.