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[icowden]

This just in from Boris - via Henry Morris

 

[briantrumpet]

This just in from Boris - via Henry Morris
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Haha, all very good, except a faulty possessive "it's". He'll have to do a reprint now.

 

[Ian H]

Haha, all very good, except a faulty possessive "it's". He'll have to do a reprint now.

Having smiled at the fourteenth century's greatest lamb-slinger, William B Shakespeare, I felt I could hardly cavil at a rogue (possibly even intentional) apostrophe.

See also Michael Rosen's Boris letters.

 

[briantrumpet]

Having smiled at the fourteenth century's greatest lamb-slinger, William B Shakespeare, I felt I could hardly cavil at a rogue (possibly even intentional) apostrophe.

See also Michael Rosen's Boris letters.

I've done my own research.

 

[briantrumpet]

FWIW, I like the idea of rogue apostrophes going round the place causing mayhem, grammatical or otherwise.

 

[icowden]

Haha, all very good, except a faulty possessive "it's". He'll have to do a reprint now.

Am I missing something? I'm looking at "it's" is a contraction, not a possessive?

 

[briantrumpet]

Am I missing something? I'm looking at "it's" is a contraction, not a possessive?

It should be a possessive "its", not a contraction of "it is". A good way to check is to substitute "his" and "it is" into where the its/it"s is, and then it becomes obvious which is correct.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Haha, all very good, except a faulty possessive "it's". He'll have to do a reprint now.

Is it good? I think making fun of someone who is a better writer by writing something is always going to be a challenge.

 

[PurplePenguin]

It should be a possessive "its", not a contraction of "it is". A good way to check is to substitute "his" and "it is" into where the its/it"s is, and then it becomes obvious which is correct.

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It's just one of those punctuation rules that someone created somewhere along the way.

 

[briantrumpet]

It's just one of those punctuation rules that someone created somewhere along the way.

It's true.

 

[C R]

It's just one of those punctuation rules that someone created somewhere along the way.

That's not a punctuation issue, it is using the wrong word!

 

[briantrumpet]

Is it good? I think making fun of someone who is a better writer by writing something is always going to be a challenge.

I'm not going to waste braincells on reading any B de Pf Johnson, so I'll let others be the judge of whether he's a good writer.

 

[briantrumpet]

That's not a punctuation issue, it is using the wrong word!

Its "it's" is.

 

[briantrumpet]

Though to be fair to PP, we only know it's the "wrong word" because of the choice to use a punctuation mark to make the visual distinction.

 

[PurplePenguin]

I'm very intolerant of punctuation snobs who laugh at things like "We sell pizza's". There's usually some commentary around the standards of English "these days" and then, if pushed, the importance of punctuation emphasised by changing commas or worrying about how many horses are in the horse's' field, and finally there is a baffled look when I ask if they were unable to understand "We sell pizzas".