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Post by leDoOd » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:56 pm

I believe the plural of Jesus would be Jesi, not Jesuses.

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Post by Albab » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:18 pm

xD Jesi. That is so incredibly awesome. That is the name of my new band.
I swear. That is so damn cool.

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Post by leDoOd » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:27 pm

Jesi on the CrusafiXXXXX

HAHAHA, it's an 80's band!

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Post by Renegade_Turner » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:09 am

Actually, with proper nouns, I think it would go like "Jesus's", because it doesn't have any regular plural form. That's how I've always done it, anyway. No other way makes sense.

I love ruining jokes.

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Post by leDoOd » Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:15 pm

You might want to take a "correct usage of the period" class if you're going to be correcting other peoples' grammar.

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Post by BunnyWithStick » Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:41 am

I only use my own grammar, not someone else's.

I only use the period to indicate something along the lines of "Stop. Period. End of story."

Yep, I have to be that independant sometimes :P

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Post by MacWiggy » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:48 am

*independent


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Post by Renegade_Turner » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:23 pm

BunnyWithStick wrote:Umm… Correct usage of the apostrophe :P
Yeah, that did not in any way discuss the pluralisation of proper nouns like names of people or places, so I'm going to ignore that completely.

It said "VCR's" is wrong, so what is it going to be? "VCRs"? That makes no sense in any way.

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Post by BunnyWithStick » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:28 pm

VCRs makes more sense than VCR's

Dammit, why do I always end up starting random crazy arguments? :?

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Post by Renegade_Turner » Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:56 pm

BunnyWithStick wrote:VCRs makes more sense than VCR's

Dammit, why do I always end up starting random crazy arguments? :?
Incorrect. VCRs makes no sense whatsoever.

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Post by Albab » Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:39 pm

Video casette(sp?) recorder's
Video casette recorders (WINNER!)

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Post by Renegade_Turner » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:36 pm

No, because it's an acronym, so your way makes no sense. I'm sorry. It is "video cassette recorders", but it's not "VCRs". It's "VCR's." Cheers.

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Post by Vib Rib » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:44 pm

Wrong. You don't add an apostrophe to acronyms unless they are possessive in form. Thus, "CDs" is correct, "CD's" is not.
Unless you were talking about a CD's contents.

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Post by leDoOd » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:46 pm

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