[Gllug] re: grammar

[Amias Channer]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:48:14 +0100
Dylan <dylan at dylan.me.uk> wrote:

> On Friday 03 Sep 2004 12:30 pm, Ian Scott wrote:
> > >  The /-'s/ is only ever acceptable as the posessive marker.
> >
> > Except in it's, where is it NEVER acceptable as the posessive marker!
> 
> Except that here it isn't /-'s/, which is very specifically the 
> morphological suffix for posession (and to be pedantic, NOT genitive.) 
> Neither "it's" nor "its" have a suffix of any kind. "It's" is a 
> contraction of two words, and "its" is a 'synthetic' form which happens 
> to end in an /s/.

well that's made it all very clear  !

if this carry's on i'm goin' to make a conserted efert to use the baddest
worstest grammer and speling in my arsenal sos i can protest. 

seriously please stop, this is very OT and very boring.

Toodle-pip
Amias  ( the part time grammer terrorist )
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