A couple of slash commands

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palmer
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Re: A couple of slash commands

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Of course I'm keeping up with the Boneses! You think 'm going to allow some skeleton to outrun ME?

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Re: A couple of slash commands

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Azhrei wrote:And wouldn't "Bones" become "Boneses" in that case? Such as "keeping up with the Boneses"?
Only if you were referring to a plural (i.e. a family name in the case you used.) Whereas if you are referring to a single character named "Bones" (which would be the case when using /mes), then no, it would actually be "Bones's staff blocks the attack."

"James" would be "James's" too.

Both *look* wrong to me though, and somewhere down the road I was taught to use "s'" in that case so I'm probably going to continue to do that anyway. Using "James's" is just ugly and I think it would be a literary speed-bump for most readers even if it's grammatically correct. ;)
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Re: A couple of slash commands

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Apparently, the use of the trailing "s" is optional, at least as indicated by this wikipedia article. And we all know that wikipedia is always correct. ;)

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Re: A couple of slash commands

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Azhrei wrote:Apparently, the use of the trailing "s" is optional, at least as indicated by this wikipedia article. And we all know that wikipedia is always correct. ;)
Well, I'll go with that then because, wrong or right, it supports what I prefer. ;)

So, we're back to where I started... we need MT to make an exception when the name ends with a "s".


(And we need never speak of "s's" again.)
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Re: A couple of slash commands

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This is addressed in 1.3b54
Dreaming of a 1.3 release

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