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From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:43:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120813174332.GA30008@eisen.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120813090338.5b9d6cdd@hactar.digimed.co.uk>

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:03:38AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:43:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 
> > It's easy enough: "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is/was/has". 
> > The apostrophe denotes a missing letter or two, not possession.
> 
> The confusion arises because, when used with a name, an apostrophe is
> needed for a possessive. Of course, if you refer to everyone as "it",
> the confusion disappears :)

The proper posessive analogy here would be “her” and, of course, “his”.

I guess the only reason why I'm so observant of such things is because I had
to learn it from scratch starting at about 12 at school.  Native speakers do
as they are used to from earliest childhood. It wasn't different with me and
my native tongue. $deiety, when I look at the stuff that I wrote as a child…
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-12  0:09 [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12  1:33 ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-12  1:41   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12  2:28     ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-12  3:10       ` Dale
2012-08-13  9:18         ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-08-13 11:21           ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-12  9:47 ` Alex Schuster
2012-08-12 10:01   ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-12 13:31     ` Mick
2012-08-12 22:52       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12 23:08         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-13  1:43           ` Peter Humphrey
2012-08-13  8:03             ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-13 17:43               ` Frank Steinmetzger [this message]
2012-08-14  0:16               ` [OT] " Peter Humphrey
2012-08-14  7:32                 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-12 23:14         ` Dale
2012-08-13 17:46           ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-13 21:31             ` Mick
2012-08-12 18:52 ` Michael Mol
2012-08-12 19:34   ` Mick
2012-08-12 20:06     ` Michael Mol

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