RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXXII
6 hours ago (This post was last modified: 6 hours ago by Bob Schroeck.)
6 hours ago (This post was last modified: 6 hours ago by Bob Schroeck.)
Ah, jeeze, I just noticed something we've all overlooked. A new user by the name of "TheCajunPhoenix" has been systematically miscorrecting the possessive form of nouns that end in "s", from s-apostrophe to s-apostrophe-s. <sigh> Something for me to track down and fix, along with giving him a warning.
EDIT: Okay, it wasn't as bad as I thought at first glance, maybe a half dozen such changes in all. And honestly, different references say different things (including one that has different rules for nouns that are plural vs singular nouns that just happen to end in "S"), so he's probably just following the way he was taught. However, a lot of our style descends from the AP Stylebook, and we've been handling this exactly as the AP lays it out. Anyway, I undid those half-dozen or so cases, and left him a friendly note about it.
EDIT: Okay, it wasn't as bad as I thought at first glance, maybe a half dozen such changes in all. And honestly, different references say different things (including one that has different rules for nouns that are plural vs singular nouns that just happen to end in "S"), so he's probably just following the way he was taught. However, a lot of our style descends from the AP Stylebook, and we've been handling this exactly as the AP lays it out. Anyway, I undid those half-dozen or so cases, and left him a friendly note about it.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....

