Re: VOCABULARY AID: Basic and Additional Vocabulary (topics 1 - 10)

Carsten Becker wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 November 2004 17:26, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>
>  > What do you mean by "book of my father's"?  Did your
>  > father write that book, or does he happen to own a copy
>  > which you used?
>
> Oh. An ambiguous sentence -- No it is copied from an
> "Aufbauwortschatz" my father possesses a copy of.
It might be strictly ambiguous, but I didn't find it so. I think that unless
it's known that my father is an author, "a book of my father's" really has to
be "a book my father possesses"; If I really meant that my father wrote the
book, (and it wasn't known that my father was an author), then I'd need to
signal it more clearly somehow.

 > Sorry for confusion. Those possessive 'S'es can drive me
 > crazy ...

I think you handled it perfectly.

€0.02

s. (who, for the first time since quotas were introduced, has used five
     posts in one day -one Rhode Island day, anyway. It's past midnight *here*)
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