From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: OT: Re: Re: Language question
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:18:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9C83A798-1806-4302-B3F8-52B69164156A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6yoxcsa.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca>
Hi Bernt,
thanks for the quick answer. It is amazing how different these
things are in different languages. My life is in 3 languages,
English, German, and Dutch, almost evenly spread between the three.
In German, you put the ' only if you are actually
omitting a letter, like in the English "let's". If it is possessive,
you actually explicitly don't put it.
For English you explained it.
In Dutch, it is a pure pronunciation issue (if I did understand
this correctly). There you only put the ' if the connected "s"
would spoil the correct pronunciation of the word.
May be Esperanto was not such a bad idea after all........
Many greetings from Babylon.
- Carsten
On Dec 10, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> this is a question to the native English speakers out there.
>>
>> If I write in the documentation
>>
>> "Cross referencing with unique IDs is hard to document"
>>
>> do I then write
>>
>> ids
>> IDs
>> id's
>> or ID's
>>
>
> IDs or ids is fine. id's and ID's is possessive (the ID owns
> something).
>
> I'd probably use IDs in this case.
>
> id is just short for identifier normally so
> ... unique identifiers is hard ...
> would also be fine.
>
> HTH,
> Bernt
>
>
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-10 15:18 Language question Carsten Dominik
2008-12-10 15:36 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-12-10 16:14 ` Ian Barton
2008-12-10 16:18 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2008-12-10 15:42 ` Matthew Lundin
2008-12-10 16:13 ` Womick, Don
2008-12-10 17:05 ` Peter Frings
2008-12-10 17:25 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-12-10 17:03 ` Samuel Wales
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