[Ads-l] Possessive plurals

[Jonathan Lighter]

He's still doing it, even putting up on the screen for us "the cats's" and
"the humans's."

JL

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 12:02 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've been watching these Latin lessons on YouTube:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWUlrL6E_QU
>
> The instructor (a native speaker of English evidently, and
> youthful-sounding)  is clearly well educated, and he knows Latin.
>
> However, he says "abLAYtive" instead of "ABlative." He also talks about
> "female," "male," and "neutral" nouns instead of masculine, feminine, and
> neuter. More to the point, though, he routinely pronounces English
> possessive plurals with an excrescent "iz."
>
> Exx: students' > "studentsiz"
>         soldiers'   > "soldierziz."
>
> Is this something we should be doing? Or is it just a pedagogical
> stratagem?
>
> JL
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>


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