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Forums => English & Linguistics => Topic started by: Primal Curve on July 06, 2005, 01:47:15 PM

Title: An important poll of imporant importance.
Post by: Primal Curve on July 06, 2005, 01:47:15 PM

Seriously. This is so seriously important that the seriousness is full of seriosity.

Title: An important poll of imporant importance.
Post by: Jonathon on July 06, 2005, 01:50:53 PM

Ugh. They're all so ugly. I picked the least ugly one (just one extra apostrophe). Personally, I'd try to avoid using the possessive forms of such names if at all possible.

Title: An important poll of imporant importance.
Post by: Primal Curve on July 06, 2005, 02:02:52 PM

I could always start up a poll asking for the plural form. :P

Title: An important poll of imporant importance.
Post by: Annie Subjunctive on July 06, 2005, 02:06:29 PM

I would go Latin and say "The horrid food-like products of the McDonald's Corporation."

Title: An important poll of imporant importance.
Post by: Jonathon on July 06, 2005, 02:19:14 PM

Latin used to have a real possessive case like English. Romance languages mostly don't, though. But yeah, that's what I meant by avoiding the plural form.

Title: An important poll of imporant importance.
Post by: eslaine on July 06, 2005, 02:22:14 PM

I thought it would be "McDonald's".

Title: An important poll of imporant importance.
Post by: Brinestone on July 06, 2005, 02:23:19 PM

Actually, that's what I would do. And probably nobody would notice the difference.

Title: An important poll of imporant importance.
Post by: Jonathon on July 06, 2005, 02:25:44 PM

You could always claim that it's an attributive noun instead of a possessive.

Title: An important poll of imporant importance.
Post by: Primal Curve on July 06, 2005, 02:37:48 PM

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Actually, that's what I would do. And probably nobody would notice the difference.

I didn't know this forum was about being lazy. I thought you guys were here to further knowledge of the greatnicity of the English langooage.

Title: An important poll of imporant importance.
Post by: Brinestone on July 06, 2005, 02:40:37 PM

And sometimes English is great because it allows you to be efficient (read: lazy).