Orthography is not intuitive. To test my native speaker instinct, I’ll pick a case that is. Imagine a user whose name was “Praise_Him”. To me, it would be more natural to say “Praise_Him’s post” than “Praise_His post”; the former might give me a second’s pause, but the latter would make me reread the sentence. Thus, at least the way I use the language, a proper name which incorporates a pronoun is possessivized as a whole, and cousin_it’s is correct. But “Its” and “It’s” are homophonous, so it wouldn’t matter to me much.
The underscore _ signifies italics in whatever-markup-system-this-is: _emph_ ⇒ emph. You can escape the underscore with a backslash before it: \_emph\_ ⇒ _emph_.
(Yes, that is a period outside of the quotation mark. I am unrepentant.)
For similar reasons I would not personally discourage people from (incorrectly) referring to (for example) Clippy’s paper clips as ” it’s ”. The language is clearly flawed.
Not to be a grammar Nazi, but I believe it should be cousin_its....
Orthography is not intuitive. To test my native speaker instinct, I’ll pick a case that is. Imagine a user whose name was “Praise_Him”. To me, it would be more natural to say “Praise_Him’s post” than “Praise_His post”; the former might give me a second’s pause, but the latter would make me reread the sentence. Thus, at least the way I use the language, a proper name which incorporates a pronoun is possessivized as a whole, and cousin_it’s is correct. But “Its” and “It’s” are homophonous, so it wouldn’t matter to me much.
The underscore _ signifies italics in whatever-markup-system-this-is:
_emph_⇒ emph. You can escape the underscore with a backslash before it:\_emph\_⇒ _emph_.Fixed. Thanks.
A similar issue is whether to say (n + 1)-st or (n + 1)-th.
Now I’m going to be arguing about that with myself all day. How do you possessivize a proper noun that ends in the word “it”?
I vote for “cousin_it’s”.
(Yes, that is a period outside of the quotation mark. I am unrepentant.)
I agree with your vote and your punctuation.
“Cousin_it’s” is good. It’s like eir name is Schmit or something.
I too am behind your punctuation choice.
The ones in the right have nothing to repent for!
For similar reasons I would not personally discourage people from (incorrectly) referring to (for example) Clippy’s paper clips as ” it’s ”. The language is clearly flawed.
good thing I didn’t go with the username “this.is.she”!