OT: Grammatical nitpicks (was Re: python vs c#)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon Oct 4 13:48:58 EDT 2004


In article <mailman.4253.1096904328.5135.python-list at python.org>,
Aaron Bingham  <bingham at cenix-bioscience.com> wrote:
>Aaron Bingham wrote:
>> Aahz wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not much of a grammatical analyst, so I don't know what you mean by
>>> "genitive form".  The standard forms that I use are zie, zir, zirs, and
>>> zirself.
>>
>> So the genitive (posessive) form is "zirs".
>
>Nevermind, I'm talking nonsense.  The genitive form is clearly "zir".  
>As in "Zir sense of grammer is not very good", right?

Dunno what that's called, but that's certainly the correct way to phrase
that sentence.
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