Who kicked who’s ass?
While I continue to kick ass in my SCS class, I fail to kick ass in my Math and CS classes. I have midterms tomorrow in both Math and CS, for which I am currently unprepared. Fortunately, my parents sent me cookies.
Also, I’d like to complain to the people who made certain English grammar rules. Who came up with this shit:
| contraction with ‘to be’ | possessive |
| I’m | mine |
| You’re | yours |
| He’s | his |
| She’s | hers |
| Who’s | whose |
| It’s | its |
| We’re | ours |
| They’re | theirs |
This makes no sense at all. If we followed the general rule of possession and added an apostrophe s to the end of the noun, only third person singular pronouns would be the same as their respective contraction with Ôto beÕ. But this would not be confusing because you would know the meaning from context. ÔItsÕ and ÔitÕsÕ are already homophones, and we can understand the difference. Why should it be any different in writing?
I propose a new, more reasonable spelling for possessive proper nouns: me’s, you’s, him’s, her’s, it’s, who’s, our’s, and them’s.
[Actually, I don’t agree with the above proposition. I had some angst about my impending midterms and wanted to complain about something, rather being being angry at myself for procrastinating.]
This entry was posted
by site admin on Thursday, November 15th, 2001 at 7:31 pm and is filed under Theory.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 
feed.
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
April 22nd, 2003 at 11:08 pm
Um… i just wanted to say that I am so much better than you. I am so awesome. You need to realize that no matter how hard you try I will always be better than you. My friend dan is even cooler than I am. So by the transitive property, since you will never be better than me, and I will most certainly never be better than dan, you also will never be better than dan. I hope this comforts you in your hour of need.
Sincerely,
Eunice Kim (the korean girl)
ps daniel helped me write this.