From: Stuart Morrow <morrow.stuart@gmail.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] joystick support docs
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 13:17:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABB-WO_4_bEhoEk5csfZF=b5=4qNn7wxXrwCb4NwudpecFMcpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9231DD3AD7FA26A46A8418569CA5892B@eigenstate.org>
On 01/09/2021, ori@eigenstate.org <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:
> The general rule is that apostrophes
> indicate posession, not plurals.
>
> Some style guides suggest putting it
> after the word when things are ambiguous,
> like so:
>
> ids => ids'
> as => as'
I can't say I've ever heard of this, or why disambiguation in
particular would be the use when apostrophe-at-the-end *already* has a
well-known use.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-02 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-31 22:54 qwx
2021-09-01 5:58 ` unobe
2021-09-01 10:58 ` Stuart Morrow
2021-09-01 21:30 ` unobe
2021-09-01 22:53 ` ori
2021-09-02 0:31 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-09-02 5:02 ` unobe
2021-09-02 12:17 ` Stuart Morrow [this message]
2021-09-02 18:09 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-09-01 22:54 ` qwx
2021-09-02 4:59 ` unobe
2021-09-01 22:58 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-09-01 23:31 ` qwx
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