Kuba Ober kuba@mareimbrium.org writes:
On niedziela 10 październik 2004 02:04 pm, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 08:53:14AM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 01:10:06AM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
I think for consistency's sake we should rename the Wine User Guide to Wine User's Guide - afterall, it's a guide for the user, not about the user.
Thoughts?
Go for it.
What about the cruelty to the common apostroph? I am not a native speaker, but it looks wrong there.
Actually, the apostrophe looks quite right there. Whose guide is it? The user's. Then one has user's guide, not user guide. User guide sounds like a u-channel where you'd shove users in order to keep them guided ;)
I have always operated on the principle that if two people can argue about it then it should be written a different way, so how about one of:
Guide for Wine Users Guide to Using Wine Wine: a guide for Users Using Wine
No apostrophes, grocer's or otherwise.
Peter
PS: I thought it out to have been "Wine Users' Guide" as it belongs to users in the plural rather than a particular user, iff ownership does not accrue to the author ....