Klarinet Archive - Posting 000251.txt from 1999/05

From: Note Staff Unlimited <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Coughy, or ti?
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 20:54:24 -0400

> - snip -

> We daily cheapen the language in our speech, but what is tolerable in the
> spoken word becomes intolerable when written, even in this informal medium.
> Now, here's a question for you. How does one pluralize a phrase, for
> instance "thank you?" To use an apostrophe ("thank you's") makes me
> cringe. Now, I don't know about England, but on *this* side of the pond,
> the apostrophe is flung about with abandon: "Susans chair's," for example.
> Print adds and sale flyers are the worst, but it is creeping in everywhere,
> even in the printed material of symphonies and theaters. )This latter case
> particularly astounds me, dealing as it does with the written word.)
>

- snip -

> -Bruce
>

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Also in German! What they call the Saxon apastrophe (only used as contraction in
German) is becoming ever more widespread. For instance "Maria's Musikladen" is
"modern" (incorrect) whereas "Marias Musikladen" would be correct.

Just barely managed to keep the thread in music there!

David
David Glenn
notestaff@-----.de

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