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Re: English notation

From:Shreyas Sampat <nsampat@...>
Date:Friday, June 29, 2001, 2:44
Aside from the fact that I didn't write this, I disagree - if anything, the
apostrophe should be removed from both.  The noun-verb contraction would
become something of an unclassifiable word, a verb form perhaps, and the
<irregular> possessive pronouns are different enough from their other two
forms that that would cause a grammatical change as opposed to a simple
othographic one.

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Shreyas

: > Shreyas Sampat wrote:
: > possessives.  Thus, my proposal would effectively reverse the current
: > it's/its contrast.  :-)
:
: Since almost no one (English teachers excepted) can remember what the
: current rule is, I dont think that would be a real problem.