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Previous | Next by muhgcee 20 May, 2003 - 2:39 PM

Is it "its" or "it's"? I have seen "its" used in literature, but MS Word doesn't like using "its". I seem to remember sometime in elementary school learning that it was correct grammar to use "its". This is bothering me.




5/20/2003 >> pyrex

It's = it is

Its = "it" posseses something

E.g. - The dog played happily, although its chew toy was nothing but shreds.

Or something. I'm pretty sure I'm right.


5/20/2003 >> erato

pryex deserves the gold star, congrats :)


5/20/2003 >> ralph

not bad for a furriner


5/20/2003 >> ben

ahh... fun time... who can tell me what the only feminine word in english is that takes a suffix to make it masculine, and what the suffix is?


5/20/2003 >> pyrex

Well thanks, all. Blue Ribbon.. maybe excluded.

Hm.. a word eh. Hm, hm, hm.


5/20/2003 >> ralph

hrm, that's a tough one. What is it?


5/20/2003 >> muhgcee

Wow, I ask a question, go do stuff for 30 minutes, come back and there my answer is. EA > google


5/20/2003 >> ben

widow is feminine,
add the suffix "er" to is, you have
widower, which is masculine.


5/20/2003 >> ralph

widow/widower


5/20/2003 >> ralph

FUCKER! BEAT ME BY 17 SECONDS!


5/20/2003 >> ralph

or 1:17.....


5/20/2003 >> ralph

either way, i suck


5/20/2003 >> ben

i think we need Jenni for EA


5/20/2003 >> ben

he couldn't find it on google i think, but we were more helpful


5/20/2003 >> ralph

what's the only word in the english language with 6 Zs?


5/20/2003 >> muhgcee

I was inferring that EA is better than google at answering questions. I didn't actually put it in google, though. I am just assuming that google would have sucked for that question. Ooh did I mention that as of about an hour ago I am on summer vacation? No, I didn't. Well, I am. But it's (already using the correct form) gonna be a vacation consisting of 40 hour/week at work. Oh well, I enjoy both jobs.


5/20/2003 >> muhgcee

"zzzzzz" - it means sleep, and is usually followed by ". . ."


5/20/2003 >> ralph

it all comes from my abundance of useless information, my dear.


5/20/2003 >> muhgcee

Dren - haven't talked to Andrea yet about Thai. I think she will probably say something like "I don't know, I will have to see what I am doing." But, I will do my best. I'll ask her tonight.


5/20/2003 >> muhgcee

Do I get an award for starting the thread with the highest posts/min or something? we are at approx. .5/min


5/20/2003 >> ralph

no reward. just the satisfaction of initiating the quickest post on DTC


5/20/2003 >> ralph

and the subject mentioned above would be???

Thai food?
it's vs. its?
widow/widower?


5/20/2003 >> pyrex

Dren. Omg. You're their little children, aren't you.


5/20/2003 >> muhgcee

Yeah I don't think you should stop helping me.


5/20/2003 >> ralph

how do you know how many comments you have?


5/20/2003 >> pyrex

You as in everyone who works where you work.

Oh for fuck's sake, never mind.


5/20/2003 >> muhgcee

For fuck's sake? So for the sake of fuck? Fuck's not a noun :-D


5/20/2003 >> ralph

aaah...now i see...

and, not that anyone cares, but the word is zenzizenzizenzic

zenzizenzizenzic-the eighth power of a number


5/20/2003 >> muhgcee

What's the point in having a word for that?


5/20/2003 >> ralph

are you telling me that you don't use this word on a daily basis?


5/20/2003 >> muhgcee

"x to the 8th" works better than "the zenzizenzizenzic power of x"


5/20/2003 >> ralph

ha ha
/nelson


5/20/2003 >> muhgcee

What?


5/20/2003 >> rich

my god, 46 comments all in the time it took me to mom the lawn


5/20/2003 >> rich

mow... damit


5/21/2003 >> rich

50th post.... again! I ownzor number fitty. WOOT!

Sorry, I think it is the bacon speaking. These Atkins people are making me crazy.


5/21/2003 >> muhgcee

Don't you just feel special.


5/23/2003 >> pyrex

Fiddy two. Again.




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