From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029281381F4 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:46:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63AE0E07C0; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:45:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD053E0800 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:43:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 13 Aug 2012 17:43:33 -0000 Received: from wl-l3-55.rz.tu-ilmenau.de (EHLO localhost) [141.24.17.55] by mail.gmx.net (mp072) with SMTP; 13 Aug 2012 19:43:33 +0200 X-Authenticated: #4040096 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/9+Bd3KMv9yPdZ2TorsOI+ElhJxUoQ90cLfoEW5i MELB1QMnHj0L5W Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:43:33 +0200 From: Frank Steinmetzger To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu Message-ID: <20120813174332.GA30008@eisen.lan> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20120812000905.GA2684@eisen.lan> <20120812225232.GA7202@eisen.lan> <20120813010816.265f6589@khamul.example.com> <201208130243.44931.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20120813090338.5b9d6cdd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20120813090338.5b9d6cdd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15, Gentoo 1.5.21-r1) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: e6f86e7a-28bf-4631-a416-994adf44624f X-Archives-Hash: f46bbecb7a247eb66722fb5d5bd87743 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… -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. Signatures are being revised, we apologise for any inconvenience.