Oddly enough that wasmight have been correct for the possessive of racist.
Because, "racist" is not a name you are only supposed to use an apostrophe if it is a contraction such as making "they are" into, "they're" which is exactly why the third version of the same pronunciation, "their" exists.
So if you wrote, "That racist's a bad person." You use an apostrophe. If you wrote, "Bernie stole the racists arm band with a swastika on it." You should not use an apostrophe.
So there was nothere any reason to change the title?
Edit: I need to find out what Duk has to say. I may have jumped the gun there.
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2dimes wrote:Oddly enough that was correct for the possessive of racist.
Because, "racist" is not a name you are only supposed to use an apostrophe if it is a contraction such as making "they are" into, "they're" which is exactly why the third version of the same pronunciation, "their" exists.
So if you wrote, "That racist's a bad person." You use an apostrophe. If you wrote, "Bernie stole the racists arm band with a swastika on it." You should not use an apostrophe.
2dimes wrote:Oddly enough that was correct for the possessive of racist.
Because, "racist" is not a name you are only supposed to use an apostrophe if it is a contraction such as making "they are" into, "they're" which is exactly why the third version of the same pronunciation, "their" exists.
So if you wrote, "That racist's a bad person." You use an apostrophe. If you wrote, "Bernie stole the racists arm band with a swastika on it." You should not use an apostrophe.
So there was no reason to change the title.
There's no logic underlying your statement. It's a common noun, not a special case of any kind. Obviously it uses an apostrophe for the possessive sense.
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2dimes wrote:GM has it worse than Boing. There are lots of automobile manufacturers. There is basically only one competitor to Boing, there would be two but ours gave away the new plane instead of trying to make them here.
2dimes wrote:GM has it worse than Boing. There are lots of automobile manufacturers. There is basically only one competitor to Boing, there would be two but ours gave away the new plane instead of trying to make them here.
This is from another thread....
Boing? Is that a boner sound?
No it was an incorrect spelling. Either by me or because Safari auto filled the wrong word as it often does.
If you were looking for a contradiction to make me look like a hypocrite because I wrote that thing about apostrophes, you should have found one of the many times I used an apostrophe, when I probably should not have. I do it quite a bit. There must be hundreds possibly thousands of times I have done it here.
Also I am dyslexic which makes for lots of fancy spelling.
there should be a comma after Trump.. otherwise it reads Trump the Racist's president .. currently the word Trump is a verb..
the verb version of trump means " to get the better of"..
so in it's currently form.. the title reads " to get the better of the racist's president.. "
we are here to help Bernie..... just keep editing it..
NomadPatriot wrote:there should be a comma after Trump.. otherwise it reads Trump the Racist's president .. currently the word Trump is a verb..
the verb version of trump means " to get the better of"..
so in it's currently form.. the title reads " to get the better of the racist's president.. "
we are here to help Bernie..... just keep editing it..
NomadPatriot wrote:there should be a comma after Trump.. otherwise it reads Trump the Racist's president .. currently the word Trump is a verb..
the verb version of trump means " to get the better of"..
so in it's currently form.. the title reads " to get the better of the racist's president.. "
we are here to help Bernie..... just keep editing it..