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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
There are many places that I see apostrophes uses, and I find it odd. For example, in the book Eats Shoots & Leaves , the authress claims that the film "Two Weeks Notice" should have an apostrophe 'twixt 'k' & 's'. In my mind, this means that *I* am not telling my employer that I shall leave in two weeks time, but rather that my two weeks are giving their notice.
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That's a twitchy case there. To phrase it more pedantically, you're telling your employer that you intend to stop working for him after a period of time measuring two weeks. It's a matter of the notice being expressed as a measure of time. It's the same as if you buy a dollar's worth of rice. It's the
worth that makes it possessive, because you're not talking about the time itself, but the measure thereof, which only has meaning as an aspect of the measurement, thus the notice is technically part of, or "possessed" by the two weeks.
That explanation ought to be convoluted enough to please even a Great, Old One.
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Originally Posted by Cthulhu
@Natch: Mr. Moderator Man, how/where do I request that the contents of a thread be published in a format whereby all good members (i.e. English reading ones) may know what is transpiring in said thread?
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We have a special form for that very purpose, I use it myself. You can access it
here. (I'd put a smiley there, but I know how you feel about them
-- oops! That one slipped!)
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
would you prefer a sweet-smelling one ?
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That would be fine, yes.
