Looking for the best way to translate an idiom

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James Stroud wrote:
> Aahz wrote:
>> In article <gi4834$lap$1 at zinnia.noc.ucla.edu>,
>> James Stroud  <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>> In case its not obvious:
>>
>> Ah, so that's where Bruno's extra apostrophe came from!  ;-)
>>
>>
>> (Sorry about the spelling flame, but seeing three posts in quick
>> succession with incorrect spelling of its/it's pushed me into making a
>> public comment.)
> 
> Yes. I think it was the British who decided that the apostrophe rule for 
> "it" would be reversed from normal usage relative to just about every 
> other noun. I'm not sure the purpose--maybe it was to give compulsive 
> proofreaders a raison d'etre.
> 
No possessive pronoun has an apostrophe.

Contractions of "is", etc, do, whether for nouns or pronouns.