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Just because the adjective subnivean is used to describe a climate or habitat in biology in no way means that it is incorrect to use it in other contexts. ApK Last edited by ApK; 01-03-2013 at 11:08 AM. Reason: Thought of a better cosmology analogy. |
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How do you know they are dirty words before you look them up?
If that is, you really only look up the dirty words? Try these.... (putrid, begrimed, scuzzy,mung, scatological, draggle, smirch, miry, mucky, yecchy, degenerate) See, I can talk dirty |
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ApK Last edited by ApK; 01-03-2013 at 01:11 PM. Reason: Certainly not to remove an errant apostrophe...nope... nothing to see here. |
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Nope - I hope! Would you read any author who couldn't get so basic a thing as the difference between "its" and it's" right? I wouldn't!
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Actually, it's kind of funny: We JUST had a thread on that apostrophe issue around here not too long ago, and I was just discussing the thread with my wife when she was labeling a container as "Mom's Nuts" and asked me about the apostrophe. "Look, in this case it's easy because it works as both a possessive and a contraction!" |
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"In it's subterranean resting place". Possessive pronoun hence no apostrophe. "It's" is only ever an abbreviation for "it is" or "it has"; if you mean "belonging to it", the word is "its" with no apostrophe. None of the possessive pronouns - my, his, her, its, our, their - have an apostrophe.
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