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Sal[Au]pian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 11/28/2007 : 15:24:11
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Originally posted by turrell
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Originally posted by Salopian
(note the correct inclusion of the apostrophe, unlike the American one - call themselves writers?!  )
You really are compelled to look for errors which aren't really errors. Why must the possessive form apply? Rather than the guild belonging to the writers why can't it be a guild of writers as the punctuation suggests? SAG uses the same construct - correctly.
Why not spend your time looking for what's right in the world and not what's wrong?
There is a difference between noticing an obvious and unambiguous error and looking for it. It definitely is wrong. To check, you only need to see whether a non-standard plural (or equivalent, in the case of second of my following examples) takes the possessive or not:
Would Children Guild of America be a (realistically) possible name? No, it would have to be Children's Guild of America.
People Guild of America? No, People's.
I hope the irony has not been lost on you that you spent your time 'correcting' me, though I have made no error here whereas the Guild has.  |
Edited by - Sal[Au]pian on 11/28/2007 15:26:45 |
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randall 
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 12/05/2007 : 20:13:48
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by turrell
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Originally posted by Salopian
(note the correct inclusion of the apostrophe, unlike the American one - call themselves writers?! )
You really are compelled to look for errors which aren't really errors. Why must the possessive form apply? Rather than the guild belonging to the writers why can't it be a guild of writers as the punctuation suggests? SAG uses the same construct - correctly.
Why not spend your time looking for what's right in the world and not what's wrong?
There is a difference between noticing an obvious and unambiguous error and looking for it. It definitely is wrong. To check, you only need to see whether a non-standard plural (or equivalent, in the case of second of my following examples) takes the possessive or not:
Would Children Guild of America be a (realistically) possible name? No, it would have to be Children's Guild of America.
People Guild of America? No, People's.
I hope the irony has not been lost on you that you spent your time 'correcting' me, though I have made no error here whereas the Guild has.
There is no grammatical error in the term Writers Guild of America. Nor People Guild of America, for that matter. |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 12/06/2007 : 10:28:31
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No SAL 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information.
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Little Old Lady from Dubuque 
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Posted - 12/27/2007 : 01:34:50
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As the old saying goes "as useless as a writer on a film set"
In the theater, the writer is primary (if it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage") ... but in Hollywood, writing seems to be by committee, and committees are generally powerless to do much of anything.
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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 12/27/2007 : 01:48:55
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Originally posted by Little Old Lady from Dubuque
As the old saying goes "as useless as a writer on a film set"
Or, as my earlier post put it about an apocryphal starlet, "She was so stupid, she slept with the writer."
Now we are beginning to understand why these highly paid writers have a union in the first place. |
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Writers Strike
