At work right now we are putting together a newsletter and our school insists upon using the AP-style handbook for all publications. Now being grad students in the humanities, we all tend to gravitate toward MLA-style naturally so most of the time we spend looking up special cases in the AP handbook, we are all "WTF?!" It's the little things you take for granted...
very neat post (and you have a lot more patience than I do in explaining all the bizarre little rules that go with using possessives) and the example about the Buffy-actors stopping short is really funny - I've never noticed that so next time I watch the show I'll look out for that. It's also interesting because JM and AD must have to be very, very careful about how one's grammar affects one's accent. Having them on the same show now also has the effect of making their accents even more distinctive.
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very neat post (and you have a lot more patience than I do in explaining all the bizarre little rules that go with using possessives) and the example about the Buffy-actors stopping short is really funny - I've never noticed that so next time I watch the show I'll look out for that. It's also interesting because JM and AD must have to be very, very careful about how one's grammar affects one's accent. Having them on the same show now also has the effect of making their accents even more distinctive.