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re: OK, Grammar Nazis. Need your help
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:47 pm to Displaced
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:47 pm to Displaced
quote:gotta disagree. like i said earlier, knowing the holiday is called New Year's, you're making a New Year's resolution in the same way you'd be making a Halloween or Thanksgiving resolution.
wrong way to look at it.
holiday name + "resolution"
it was a pleasure posting with you fine gentlemen. i'll see my way out.
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Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:48 pm to Schmelly
quote:
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary 5 days ago - What is New Year('s) resolution? a promise that you make to ... bad on the first day of the year: "Have you made any New Year's resolutions
I'll go with them.
This post was edited on 12/8/14 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:49 pm to Displaced
You would say "This week's goal is to sell x units." It's the goal for that week, it's not the standard concept of ownership but it's still an application of the possessive. You could also say "Our goal for this week" and that would be fine too, but New Year's resolutions is valid and it is certainly not "New Years resolutions" because that's plural.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:53 pm to TheMuffinMan
2015 resolutions
You can't go wrong.
You can't go wrong.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:53 pm to LNCHBOX
quote:
No it's not. Why are you even trying to argue this?
im not, i even admitted both ways are probably technically correct, but trying to use "New Year Day" as an example isn't right. it is new year's day, but the resolutions dont belong to the year. the day does.
another example:
i'm having a party on New Year's day.
(it is your party that happens to be on that day) The following are correct:
I'm having a New Year party.
I'm having a New Year's Day party.
I'm having a party.
the 's from New Year's comes from New Year's Day even though the day is often dropped when describing other things.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:55 pm to link
quote:
knowing the holiday is called New Year's
saying "New Year's" without saying "Day" doesn't make sense.
quote:
you're making a New Year's resolution in the same way you'd be making a Halloween or Thanksgiving resolution.
exactly, it isn't "my thanksgiving's resolution" or "my birthday's resolution"
This post was edited on 12/8/14 at 12:57 pm
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:55 pm to Displaced
quote:
I'm having a New Year party.
While grammatically correct, you are the only person I know that would say it that way.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:56 pm to Displaced
In conclusion, OP should put "New Year's Day Resolution(s)" on his mailer.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:57 pm to Displaced
quote:
saying "New Year's" without saying "Day" doesn't make sense.
Actually it does. It's basically like a you understood. Just about everyone would know exactly what holiday you were talking about if you said "What are you doing for new Year's?"
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:57 pm to guedeaux
quote:
In conclusion, OP should put "New Year's Day Resolution(s)" on his mailer.
if you only intend the resolution for one day.
if you want to keep then for the whole year (even bigger
) then they are New Year Resolutions.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:58 pm to LNCHBOX
the "day" is implied????
i know it is
i know it is
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:59 pm to Displaced
Or an easier way to say it is new year's resolution, meaning one resolution for the whole new year.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:00 pm to Displaced
quote:
the "day" is implied????
i know it is
Well the only reason to justify the way you say it is to act like it isn't implied.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:00 pm to LNCHBOX
but the possessive is still on year.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:00 pm to LNCHBOX
Technically "New Year Resolutions" is correct, but Americans have butchered it by constantly saying "New Year's Resolutions" as if the resolutions belong to the New Year and not yourself.
Unfortunately, it has become so popular to say "New Year's Resolutions" that if you actually start saying "New Year Resolutions", educated people would look at you like you were a fool.
This is one of those situations where it is better to follow the crowd and say it incorrectly than be a douchebag and pronounce it correctly.
Follow the norm.
Unfortunately, it has become so popular to say "New Year's Resolutions" that if you actually start saying "New Year Resolutions", educated people would look at you like you were a fool.
This is one of those situations where it is better to follow the crowd and say it incorrectly than be a douchebag and pronounce it correctly.
Follow the norm.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:01 pm to LNCHBOX
quote:
Well the only reason to justify the way you say it is to act like it isn't implied.
because, although it is implied in today's english, it isn't gramatically correct. that is what this thread is about.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:01 pm to Displaced
quote:
but the possessive is still on year.
"'s" doesn't solely imply possession BTW.
Side note: link, this is how these threads go forever.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:01 pm to mizzoukills
exactly
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:01 pm to Displaced
quote:
because, although it is implied in today's english, it isn't gramatically correct.
Wrong. It is grammatically correct.
quote:
that is what this thread is about.
My way is right. DWI.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 1:02 pm to LNCHBOX
quote:
's" doesn't solely imply possession BTW.
What is your New Year is Resolution?
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