Klarinet Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 2000/12

From: Karel Vahala <vahalakv@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] War of the Tony`s
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 00:23:11 -0500

I am almost positive that you are wrong, Neil. "Tony's" means belonging to Tony,
and never correctly "two Tonies". As in pony and ponies.

Karel.

Neil Leupold wrote:

> --- Karel Vahala <vahalakv@-----.au> wrote:
>
> > And I thought Australia was the only place that uses < ' > wrongly. Sorry to
> > jump on this, but as English is my second language, there are mistakes I find
> > very irritating. The use of the apostrophe, which means < of >, to try and
> > express < plural > is so common. And since language is our means of
> > communication, teachers everywhere should work to eradicate this awful
> > malexpression. It is almost as bad as calling a rest the continuation of the
> > preceding note.
>
> I'm a bit of a closet English-o-phile, and it is actually proper usage
> in this case to include the apostrophe to denote plurality. It looks
> wrong, yes, but nobody ever accused the English language of being con-
> sistent.
>
> -- Neil
>
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