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grammar rantish thingy
Dec. 14th, 2005 03:32 amI should either be in bed or finishing my essay, but instead I'm reading fanfic, and I keep coming across something that's getting really damn annoying.
In two days time.
In three weeks time.
In four months time.
Etc.
JEDSJKGAJGKADFKJAD;FJGAGERKLDAKJDFLGDFAG!!1!
I guess people don't get that those are short and non-awkward ways of saying something like "the time belonging to two days/three weeks/four months/etc."? 'Cause that's what they're supposed to be, and it should be "two days' time", "three weeks' time", "four months' time", and all that.
YOU NEED THE BLOODY APOSTROPHE.
It just makes no sense without the apostrophe. Without it, those time periods are pluralized, and it's just...what? What the hell does that mean? Maybe it's that it's 3:30 am right now, but I can't think of any meaning at all if there's no apostrophe when you're talking about something happening in two days' time. The time is being possessed by the time period (days/weeks/months/etc.), and therefore needs the apostrophe to indicate that possession.
Ragjkddjf.
Okay, done ranting. Back to your regularly scheduled...whatever it is that I usually post. :p
In two days time.
In three weeks time.
In four months time.
Etc.
JEDSJKGAJGKADFKJAD;FJGAGERKLDAKJDFLGDFAG!!1!
I guess people don't get that those are short and non-awkward ways of saying something like "the time belonging to two days/three weeks/four months/etc."? 'Cause that's what they're supposed to be, and it should be "two days' time", "three weeks' time", "four months' time", and all that.
YOU NEED THE BLOODY APOSTROPHE.
It just makes no sense without the apostrophe. Without it, those time periods are pluralized, and it's just...what? What the hell does that mean? Maybe it's that it's 3:30 am right now, but I can't think of any meaning at all if there's no apostrophe when you're talking about something happening in two days' time. The time is being possessed by the time period (days/weeks/months/etc.), and therefore needs the apostrophe to indicate that possession.
Ragjkddjf.
Okay, done ranting. Back to your regularly scheduled...whatever it is that I usually post. :p
