On 16.11.2017 17:37, Werner Arnhold wrote:
For example: the English language knows the saxon genitiv form e.g. "Garner's" (see below). In German it always was absolutely wrong to use a quote for that reason. When after the german reunion a big part of the people raised with Russion as first foreign language, they often used that form, e.g. "Lisa's Wolllädchen". Some time ago that way of writing was declared legal.
Interesting. That’s an explanation I’ve never heard before, but I do know that using an apostrophe with the genitive of names was perfectly normal in German in the 19th century (and I would be in favor of reintroducing it… :-) )
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