"Blinky the Shark" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>
>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote
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>>> Nancy Young wrote:
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>>>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote
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>>>>> Nancy Young wrote:
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>>>>>> I have its it's issues. I can't get it that the possessive doesn't
>>>>>> have an apostrophe. Why???? Heh.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do these *other* possessive pronouns have an apostrophe?
>>>>>
>>>>> hers
>>>>> theirs
>>>>> yours
>>>>> ours
>>>>>
>>>>> No.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Its" isn't even an exception; it illustrates the *norm*.
>>>>
>>>> Do you say hers hats? Hers rock?
>>>
>>> Uh. Of course not. But thanks for playing.
>>
>> Okay, I'm talking about when you'd say its hat. Its foot. That's when I
>> want that apostrophe in there.
>
> Well, if you want to do it correctly, stop wanting that. That's
> exactly what I was illustrating with the list I showed -- that adding an
> "s" to a pronoun doesn't mean you have to insert an "apostrophe". It's no
> more necessary there than when you add an "s" to make a plural. Lions and
> tigers and bears identify a group of animals; "lion's and tiger's and
> bear's" doesn't. We must stamp out this knee-jerk obsession for inserting
> apostrophes as if they are somehow needed to warn the reader that there is
> an "s" coming. Esses are not dangerous; the reader does not need to be
> warned that he's about to see one.

I don't always want to add the apostrophe, I am *not* the cause
of the apostrophe shortage. You will have to blame someone else
for that.

I'm only talking about when I would say Nancy's car. The woman's scarf.
It's feet. My right pinky wants to put that apostrophe only in cases like
that.

I'm not the person who thinks ' means Watch out, here comes an s.

nancy