Re: USAGE: What to do about punctuation?
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 12, 2003, 17:59 |
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From: "Nik Taylor" <yonjuuni@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: USAGE: What to do about punctuation?
> Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> > English punctuation (in Ill Bethisad) is about
> > like standard use *here*. Possessives don't have
> > appostrophes as a rule, which I think is the
> > chief difference (the childs cat, for ex).
>
> How does one distinguish singular possessive and plural possessive for
> regular nouns? It seems that "The boy's cat" and "The boys' cat" would
> both be "The boys cat" in IB English.
No such distinction exists in the spoken language, so there is no reason why
it should in the written one.