Re: [tied] Evening/Night (was Re: The "Mother" Problem)

From: Exu Yangi
Message: 36486
Date: 2005-02-26

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>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Exu Yangi" <exuyangi@...> wrote:
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> > Most people havn't the faintest idea of what a genitive is, let
>alone how to
> > spell it if it sounds like a plural. Which, of course, it does
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>I trust this isn't because they call it the possessive! I have caused
>at least temporary confusion by referring to the possessive as the
>'genitive'.

Sorry to break the bad news news to you ... the (increasingly mis-named)
possesive is indeed the Genitive case ...

>Richard.
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