Comments on: Paris Hilton wants YOU to be her friend!

By: Mostly Harmless

Mostly Harmless — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:51:53 +0000

“LEAVE PARIS ALONE!!!! Waaaahhh haaa haaaaa”

(sorry)

By: Grate

Grate — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:32:42 +0000

What she really means is someone anyone everyone who WILL screw her over and when they’re all done, back to square 1 to start over. So many men so little time. But then there’s women and kids and dogs and horses and lamp posts and zucchinis and its a pity her neck’s not long enough but at least she has a big enough mouth

By: Alter_Fritz

Alter_Fritz — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:58:11 +0000

shit it cutted the main part:
“Asks a guy living in Avenue Q
Answer: Obviously not working for MTV”

By: Alter_Fritz

Alter_Fritz — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:57:01 +0000

“what would you do with a B.A. in english”

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:02:51 +0000

@ “Looks like MTV needs to learn how to form the possessive in English.”

I always use s’ but as I understand it, strictly speaking, bah is right and it should be s’s.

But who’s counting?

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:33:55 +0000

omg omg omg!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:23:38 +0000

Perhaps Jon can offer his opinion given his experience in writing.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:21:03 +0000

“Looks like MTV needs to learn how to form the possessive in English. It’s Paris’s not Paris’. Then again, who’s surprised to find that MTV fails at English?”

As much as I hate all things MTV and paris hilton, the original form is correct. The possessive enclitic is often shortened to a final apostrophe in the case of singular nouns ending in -s. Styles may however differ. As long as the meaning is obvious, either forms’ grammaticality can be justified.

It could be contended that the enclitic -’s is more concise given it’s unambiguous interpretation. Of course, if you wish to eradicate all vestiges of uncertainty, then the periphrastic construction -of should be used. My preference has always been to supplant possessive enclitics with prepositional equivalents. Given that enclitics represent a progressively transformational state of a lexeme using grammaticalization, I would conclude that the perennial solution is the aforementioned prepositional phrase.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:37:34 +0000

She vandalized the hotel in Moscow, and is now banned for life from that hotel chain, worldwide.

Epic win!

By: bah

bah — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:24:49 +0000

Looks like MTV needs to learn how to form the possessive in English. It’s Paris’s not Paris’. Then again, who’s surprised to find that MTV fails at English?

By: someone there

someone there — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:50:41 +0000

Correction: Life is lonely at the top… and this is the proof…

By: x3style

x3style — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:27:16 +0000

‘just someone to get along with that is not going to “screw me” over’
…mkay male contestants probably drop out.
and females… i wanna see that one who’s not in for the money.
I’m actually curious if its even remotely possible that she finds anyone fitting that criteria considering her reputation.

Probably 99.99999% of males would totally go for the screw and cash part.I think even gay people would go hetero just for the money.