OT: Re: Re: Language question

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Bernt,

thanks for the quick answer.  It is amazing how different these
things are in different languages.  My life is in 3 languages,
English, German, and Dutch, almost evenly spread between the three.

In German, you put the ' only if you are actually
omitting a letter, like in the English "let's".  If it is possessive,
you actually explicitly don't put it.

For English you explained it.

In Dutch, it is a pure pronunciation issue (if I did understand
this correctly).  There you only put the ' if the connected "s"
would spoil the correct pronunciation of the word.

May be Esperanto was not such a bad idea after all........

Many greetings from Babylon.

- Carsten

On Dec 10, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> this is a question to the native English speakers out there.
>>
>> If I write in the documentation
>>
>>   "Cross referencing with unique IDs is hard to document"
>>
>> do I then write
>>
>>    ids
>>    IDs
>>    id's
>> or  ID's
>>
>
> IDs or ids is fine.  id's and ID's is possessive (the ID owns
> something).
>
> I'd probably use IDs in this case.
>
> id is just short for identifier normally so
> ... unique identifiers is hard ...
> would also be fine.
>
> HTH,
> Bernt
>
>
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