Re: [OT] Re: [Pan-users] blooper on pan.rebelbase.com

[Francesco Lamonica]

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On Monday 23 September 2002 17:50, Søren Boll Overgaard wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 17:54, John J. LeMay Jr. wrote:
> > ** Reply to message from Søren Boll Overgaard <address@hidden> on 23 Sep
> > 2002 17:36:06 +0200
> >
> > > AFAIK, putting an apostrophe is short for "pan is website", which is
> > > not what I meant.
> >
> > Only sometimes. In this case the apostrophe is used to show ownership.
> > The website "belongs" to pan, at least gramatically. Without the
> > apostrophe "pans" becomes a plural - as in more than one pan - not what
> > you wanted either!
>
> I stand corrected.
since we're completely offtopic..... :-))))) isnt the \"'s\" used just for 
someone who can 'possess' things? i.e. a man? i thought that for object the 
use of 'of' would have to be preferred

oh... power users repeated twice?
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