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Subject:Re: Your opinions again, please From:Thomas Krueger <tjk -at- INTROL -dot- INTROL -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 6 Jun 1994 13:48:14 GMT
David L. Bergart (bodafu -at- ccvax -dot- sinica -dot- edu -dot- tw) wrote:
: Well...since you asked...
: When suepstewrt -at- aol -dot- com wrote that
: >Neither hardware nor software may own anything.
: >No possessive required/permitted.
: I was overcome with righteous indignation, but when I stopped foaming at
: the mouth I decided to respond thus:
: Hi Sue
: Yup, but things can be associated with them, and we do use the
: possessive form to express association -- my country, my children (neither of
The linguists call that "the associative" for a reason.
- Tom
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