semiotek
Joined: November 29, 2005 (email not validated)
Number of comments posted: 24
Number of votes received: 29
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on: tailorable
I wouldn't use it, but some might find it bearable. Be that ...
on: Floorings?
Yes!...
on: Sift
You strain it....
on: Correct preposition following different?
I note that I have left an open bracket - although that was ...
on: “Self-confessed”
Surely the term is a noun rather than a preterite, and there...
on: Correct preposition following different?
Logical argument - this is language usage in the real world ...
on: Whom are you?
Prescribed by whom, precisely?...
on: Whom are you?
Although scyllacat is correct in this case, her argument doe...
on: Whom are you?
Did you never hear that the verb "to be" takes no object? To...
on: Why are some single objects plural?
I suspect the jeans issue is due to trousers having begun li...
on: Space After Period
One - anything else drives me insane!...
on: Possessive when abbreviated letter is plural
HFK's would also work, for the same reason....
on: As it were
Gosh - it'll be gerunds next!!...
on: As it were
Wonderful Drew - there are at least two of us who remember t...
on: Punctuation of Ltd.
There is no need for any comma at all, and the inclusion of ...
on: Impact as a noun
I think "crazy" a very polite description for the gentleman ...
on: Parentheses vs. Square Brackets
Whatever about that, "a SIGNIFICANT figures" is clearly inco...
on: Writing out percentages correctly
In my view it is entirely proper to write the digital/symbol...
on: Doing the dishes...
While I can't think of a rule for this, it does occur to me ...
on: Paraphrase
Neither a paraphrase nor a quotation - just an allusion to E...
on: Genius and Ingenious
The simple answer is that there isn't really a question. If ...
on: “It is I” vs. “It is me”
What does correct mean? Long ago when I was young, the rule ...
on: Is it a colloquial form?
It's a poetic, even archaic form, often found in old folk so...
January 9, 2013, 3:42am • 0 vote
on: “my” vs. “mine” in multiple owner possessive
For the example given in the original question, my is correc...