Comments on: Quotations http://talkingbollocks.net The Nature of Now Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jonesxxx http://talkingbollocks.net/quotations/#comment-652 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:20:00 +0000 http://talkingbollocks.wordpress.com/?page_id=164#comment-652 I’d like to take issue with this argument that “it’s” is not possessive. “Nigel’s” is possessive. So could the argument that “it’s” is not possessive be based on the fact that “it” cannot be a person? What if we were talking about an animal? The dog’s bone. “It’s” bone or “its” bone? The rules tell us that it’s “its” but is this merely based on the fact that the dog is not human? What if the dog were a male dog? Fred’s bone would be acceptable. So the “its” rule is not based on the humanity of the possessor but on stating a definitive gender.

It’s a ridiculous rule!

I heard some nitwit actually telephone in to the BBC last week and complain that presenters kept using the term “slash” when spelling out a web site. The caller complained that there is “no such thing as a slash” only a “back slash” or “forward slash”. Poppycock! The man was a absurd twit. Of course there is such a thing as a slash. Both forward and back slashes are examples of slashes. And since the only slash which works for a URL is a forward slash there is no need to describe the slash precisely. God knows why this man wasted his time on such piffle, God knows why people waste their time on correcting “it’s” and God knows why I am wasting my time on writing this rebuttal. I guess we’re all absurd twits.

]]> By: jenwhite http://talkingbollocks.net/quotations/#comment-643 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:51:43 +0000 http://talkingbollocks.wordpress.com/?page_id=164#comment-643 It’s a mental tic, Waygood, like tourette’s. Ignore it because it won’t go away.

Great site, my friend.

]]> By: jonesxxx http://talkingbollocks.net/quotations/#comment-454 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:36 +0000 http://talkingbollocks.wordpress.com/?page_id=164#comment-454 Its a fiar cop :-)

]]> By: A Waygood http://talkingbollocks.net/quotations/#comment-451 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:03:34 +0000 http://talkingbollocks.wordpress.com/?page_id=164#comment-451 An interesting website, but PLEASE -it’s (used everwhere) isn’t possessive, it means ‘it is’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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