August 12, 20205 yr Commercial Member I was relating the pronunciation of "something" with respect to the problem of interpretation and didn't want to offend or seem picky about those with a local dialect as I mentioned the similarity with those that add the G sounded at the end. Steve Waite: Engineer at codelegend.com
August 12, 20205 yr I suppose that dialect does have an effect on pronunciation - living up north, I tend to drop the g ending of some words rather than pronounce it as a k.. Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
August 12, 20205 yr Commercial Member Yes, we must be careful to remember that many folk are born into communities that speak differently in some cases. And also be careful not to incite the forum post police. In this discussion we are basically relating to those with another first language. Steve Waite: Engineer at codelegend.com
August 18, 20205 yr On 8/10/2020 at 3:07 PM, dave belsey said: Or write it! Dave. What has always amazed me is that so many use "it's" instead of "its". Antoine v Heck --- Ryzen 5800X3D, 32Gb DDR4 RAM@1600 Mhz, RTX3090 (24GB VRAM). 2TB SSD - VR with Quest 2 via link cable
August 18, 20205 yr 4 hours ago, avhpilot said: What has always amazed me is that so many use "it's" instead of "its". Why? Most spellcheckers change every occurrence of the word to "it's" and most users don't notice it until it's too late. Spellcheckers are rather stupid as AI goes and rarely compensate for a word's context in a sentence.
August 18, 20205 yr 11 hours ago, avhpilot said: What has always amazed me is that so many use "it's" instead of "its". I assumed the 's to be a contraction of "his" as in "Antoine, his forum name". The rule for it's is that the apostrophe is used only in the contraction of "it is", presumably because "it, his correct spelling" wouldn't make sense, though Heaven knows it's a trivial absurdity. What really Ps me O... is apostrophes placed in plural forms of nouns by the under-educated who are never sure if potatoes is spelt with an e. Are spelled with an e? Has an e in it? Them? Whatever, I'm sufficiently bloody-minded about it to spell plural abbreviations without the apostrophe: PCBs, VORs et c. (And as for mongeese... surely that would make 'beek' the plural of 'book')
August 18, 20205 yr Moderator 51 minutes ago, Dave Morgan said: I assumed the 's to be a contraction of "his" as in "Antoine, his forum name". The rule for it's is that the apostrophe is used only in the contraction of "it is", presumably because "it, his correct spelling" wouldn't make sense, though Heaven knows it's a trivial absurdity. Actually, there are two use cases for the apostrophe: contractions possessives So "Antoine's" is the possessive form, as in "This comb is Antoine's." but "Antoine's going to the movies tonight." is a case of contraction. However you are absolutely correct to omit the apostrophe in the case of plural nouns. Now my "pet peeve" is improper use of pronouns such as "Me and Henry..." instead of the proper "Henry and I..." There are two simple "rules" for this: Always put yourself last in a list; it's not only polite but proper! Leave everyone on the list except yourself and rehearse the sentence aloud. If it sounds stupid; that's because it is! Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
August 18, 20205 yr 50 minutes ago, n4gix said: Always put yourself last in a list; it's not only polite but proper! Leave everyone on the list except yourself and rehearse the sentence aloud. If it sounds stupid; that's because it is! Exactly how I was taught. "Me and Bill went for a couple of beers last night." "Thanks for giving Ben and I a ride home." Eww.
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