Comments on: To all Grammar Nazis: Help a brother out http://blog.mylittlepwnage.com/2009/02/25/to-all-grammar-nazis-help-a-brother-out/ Out of the frying pan and into the punch in the face. Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:15:48 +1300 hourly 1 By: Cam http://blog.mylittlepwnage.com/2009/02/25/to-all-grammar-nazis-help-a-brother-out/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Cam Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:24:53 +0000 http://blog.mylittlepwnage.com/?p=305#comment-65 <p>Just came back to my laptop and decided to look up Apostrophe. This Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apostrophe&oldid=273182826) is what I ended up reading.</p> <p>I read various parts and then “Time, money, and similar”.* In reading that I thought, hey I might be right … but then I could also be wrong. I’m not really sure, I’ll read some more.</p> <p>So I ended up reading “Importance for disambiguation” below the time content, and I’ve now decided I know so very little about this subject I should have just kept to myself to begin with :)</p> <ul> <li>I have my own questions about punctuation before and after an end quote mark. Usually I put a full stop inside the quotation, in this case a person could copy and paste the quote and not find what they’re after because a full stop is not part of it. Drama!</li> </ul> Just came back to my laptop and decided to look up Apostrophe. This Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apostrophe&oldid=273182826) is what I ended up reading.

I read various parts and then “Time, money, and similar”.* In reading that I thought, hey I might be right … but then I could also be wrong. I’m not really sure, I’ll read some more.

So I ended up reading “Importance for disambiguation” below the time content, and I’ve now decided I know so very little about this subject I should have just kept to myself to begin with :)

  • I have my own questions about punctuation before and after an end quote mark. Usually I put a full stop inside the quotation, in this case a person could copy and paste the quote and not find what they’re after because a full stop is not part of it. Drama!
]]> By: Cam http://blog.mylittlepwnage.com/2009/02/25/to-all-grammar-nazis-help-a-brother-out/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Cam Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:03:25 +0000 http://blog.mylittlepwnage.com/?p=305#comment-61 <p>Uh. Technical grammar analysis from someone completely untrained in technical grammar analysis follows: It seems like "seconds" is possessive of "time" in that sentence, but I'm pretty certain that the whole sentence is a shortening in the first place - not correct of the strictest grammatical rules. "In 90 seconds of time." Since it is a shortening and seconds do not actually possess time, they are a measure of it, I think the apostrophe is technically incorrect.</p> <p>But super cool use of an apostrophe anyway, I almost <em>never</em> remember to identify possessiveness in situations similar to this.</p> <p>I just read the link, and I think the other analysis is incorrect. But you can argue that "In 90 seconds time", that is without the apostrophe, is incorrect also - except for the extremely commonplace use of the phrase.</p> Uh. Technical grammar analysis from someone completely untrained in technical grammar analysis follows: It seems like “seconds” is possessive of “time” in that sentence, but I’m pretty certain that the whole sentence is a shortening in the first place – not correct of the strictest grammatical rules. “In 90 seconds of time.” Since it is a shortening and seconds do not actually possess time, they are a measure of it, I think the apostrophe is technically incorrect.

But super cool use of an apostrophe anyway, I almost never remember to identify possessiveness in situations similar to this.

I just read the link, and I think the other analysis is incorrect. But you can argue that “In 90 seconds time”, that is without the apostrophe, is incorrect also – except for the extremely commonplace use of the phrase.

]]> By: nb http://blog.mylittlepwnage.com/2009/02/25/to-all-grammar-nazis-help-a-brother-out/comment-page-1/#comment-59 nb Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:35:08 +0000 http://blog.mylittlepwnage.com/?p=305#comment-59 <p>Unless you're Gollum, I guess. Ninety secondses time, precioussss... Oh, <a href="http://www.englishforums.com/English/SeveralSecondsSeveralSeconds/dnqqz/post.htm" rel="nofollow">here's something</a>. And it's on the Internet, so it must be true.</p> Unless you’re Gollum, I guess. Ninety secondses time, precioussss… Oh, here’s something. And it’s on the Internet, so it must be true.

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