Hi Bernt,
thanks for the quick answer. It is amazing how different these
things are in different languages. My life is in 3 languages,
English, German, and Dutch, almost evenly spread between the three.
In German, you put the ' only if you are actually
omitting a letter, like in the English "let's". If it is possessive,
you actually explicitly don't put it.
For English you explained it.
In Dutch, it is a pure pronunciation issue (if I did understand
this correctly). There you only put the ' if the connected "s"
would spoil the correct pronunciation of the word.
May be Esperanto was not such a bad idea after all........
Many greetings from Babylon.
- Carsten
On Dec 10, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
this is a question to the native English speakers out there.
If I write in the documentation
"Cross referencing with unique IDs is hard to document"
do I then write
ids
IDs
id's
or ID's
IDs or ids is fine. id's and ID's is possessive (the ID owns
something).
I'd probably use IDs in this case.
id is just short for identifier normally so
... unique identifiers is hard ...
would also be fine.
HTH,
Bernt
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