From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Jambunathan K'" <kjambunathan@gmail.com>,
"'Glenn Morris'" <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s"
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:36:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CC89F206C9364F43809AB39394ECC90B@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8139a1jtnk.fsf@gmail.com>
> If the "subject" is Emacs - It is Emacs'(s) manual right? - then the
> above controversy can altogether be avoided by dropping
> self-references altogether. Even if there is a need, one can use
> runtime etc. and still make herself understood by the reader.
Good point.
In fact, many (most?) technical writing style guidelines call for avoiding such
possessives. It is, I think, increasingly common to see, e.g., "the object
name" instead of "the object's name". (I have no possessive apostrophes in the
doc I write, for instance.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-23 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-23 17:48 Possessive apostrophe with singular nouns ending in "s" Glenn Morris
2012-02-23 17:50 ` Deniz Dogan
2012-02-23 22:28 ` James Cloos
2012-02-24 5:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-02-23 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-23 18:07 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-23 18:15 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-23 20:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-23 21:47 ` chad
2012-02-24 5:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-02-24 11:57 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-02-23 18:07 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-23 18:23 ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-23 18:36 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-02-23 18:24 ` Paul Eggert
2012-02-23 18:32 ` Jay Belanger
2012-02-23 18:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-02-23 21:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-24 19:10 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-02-25 12:16 ` Richard Stallman
2012-03-01 8:46 ` Miles Bader
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