Sorry for the caps, but I am officially renouncing Libertad and asking him/her to spank it down or leave.
Just because we agree on a cross-section of issues does not give you my endorsement to call people names in lieu of debating them, even if they’ve done it to you first.
There. Now the next time some lefty freaks out and starts name calling and I don’t like it, at least don’t tell me I have a double standard.
And seriously, Libertad. You have sucked shit the last couple of days – just being annoying and mean, and not making any sense. Knock it the fuck off or we’re not going to teach you the new secret handshake.
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…it aint healthy.
Remind me not to piss you off. LOL
I have to say, well done.
…you can’t renounce the fleas.
The fact that someone disagrees with you does not mean they are a bad person. It doesn’t even mean they’re wrong. His posts are consistently intelligent and thoughtful and he adds a lot to this site.
…are you just making things up now? I know you have a lot of blog space to fill, so I guess I can understand your desperation….
I am sensing a general airing of the grievances around here.
but kinda hard to do the feats of strength online.
…I don’t have my say-something hat ready yet!
thanks, L.B. (Now if you can just do something to get rid of Nancy L. Baldwin…)
Is like tying one of us on the left to any of the CD-2 primary shills we had here. Every political philosophy has it’s idiots.
I’m in the middle of grading a batch of freshman level PoliSci papers. It really is that hard… 🙂
Gramar reers it’s uglee hed agen,
I still remember back in college working very hard to never write irregardless – it’s funny how certain mis-uses are just hard to break.
I had an Iranian coworker who spoke good English but was always wanting to improve. She would come to me to ask grammar and spelling questions. Usually I could explain something, but then other times were inexplicable.
Sometimes there was no logical answer, as we all know.
From the vernacular.
She spoke well.
I’ll stand by my original post.
The apostrophe+s (used to show possession) is not used with a possessive pronoun because the word itself shows possession.
Possessive Pronouns
Certain pronouns called possessive pronouns show ownership. Some are used alone; some describe a noun.
Used alone: mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs, whose
Correct: That computer is hers.
Modify noun: my, your, his, her, its, our, their, whose
Correct: That is her computer.
Please note that none of the possessive pronouns are spelled with an apostrophe
a native English speaker, right?
…I was trying to answer your question about why “it’s” isn’t possessive. Apparently your question was purely rhetorical and you weren’t looking for an answer. That’s too bad for would-be teachers like yourself (and your would-be students).
In any event, unless David T. is a non-native English speaker, this rule is not hard.
…a way of pointing out the inconsistency of the rules. Sure, rules make sense when you refer back to the rules, but not at a consistency level.
I’m no linguist, but I have always heard that English is one of the harder languages to learn due to just this example.
“I before E.” “Uh, except after C.”
While trying to learn Spanish in Guatemala I was also teaching a little English to my teacher, and showing her all the ways different sounds can be spelled in English.
Jam’s rule helps in explaining contractions v possessive, but English is a very idiosyncratic language. Learning it as a second would be very difficult.
While learning any language (as a second) is difficult, especially for someone like myself who is a bit dense, at least Spanish letters are generally pronounced consistently and the grammar rules are usually consistent as well.
Many Americans are terrible at grammar. I always want to ask the ‘English only’ crowd which English they are talking about. I grew up in Kentucky, and seriously, a lot of those folks would flunk ‘English only’ tests if we’re talking about anything that’s ‘standard.’
A few years ago he mentioned that he had bought the new Harry Potter book…….. in Japanese.
Last I heard he was doing some classes in Latin.
What a skill.
Had an Iranian coworker who was always looking to improve her english. She carried a note card around with words that she would hear to either ask me or look up later in the dictionary. The hardest one to define for me was “irony”
She would ask about a word and then make notes to herself in Chinese. She also kept the television on, and unlike the enabling Spanish only stations, she had no choice but to listen to English. Well, I guess, or Spanish….