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[Siduri]

Kawamura wrote...

Anders' is the possessive. Anders's is a contraction of "Anders is".

I'm pretty certain of that.

No, you're getting confused with the rule for "its" and "it's". "It's" is always a contraction of "it is," while "its" is the possessive form.

Names don't follow the same rule, though. There is no formally-correct way to contract "Anders is," and if you're trying to capture the way a person can slur those words while speaking, you'd write "Anders 's" (as in, "Sorry, can't talk, Anders 's goin' ta blow up th' Chantry now, 'n I gotta get anuther pint b'fore the torch-wieldin' mobs storm the Hanged Man.")

The rule for the possessive apostrophe, when applied to proper names ending in S, used to be that you had to add the additional S afterwards unless the name was a classical or Biblical one. So: it's Jesus' loincloth, and Socrates' toga, but it's Anders's weird gray bib.

This is confusing and sometimes awkward, so it's becoming increasingly acceptable to leave off the extra S in all cases. The Chicago Manual of Style allows this as "an alternative practice." I personally leave off the extra S in all cases except the very most formal. So, on your wedding invitations or your college admissions essays, you'll want to talk about the way Anders's lean, scarred frame shuddered under Fenris's touch.

In less formal contexts you can just inform everyone that it was Anders' hazel amber eyes that flared with lust at Fenris' approach.

And that's the rule.

Modifié par Siduri, 31 mars 2011 - 08:49 .

[leggywillow]

Siduri wrote...
So, on your wedding invitations or your college admissions essays, you'll want to talk about the way Anders's lean, scarred frame shuddered under Fenris's touch.

BEST COLLEGE ADMISSION ESSAY EVER.

[LastFadingSmile]

Ryzaki wrote...

I will never understand how you can pick a glowing heart and not expect something romantic.

Though that comic is hilarious.

ikr? I read a thread here yesterday where the guy was like "I THOUGHT I WAS BEING SUPPORTIVE OF HIM WTF GHEYS!"

The "supportive" option in question that he picked was, "I like men with dark pasts <3."

Which leads me to wonder how someone who so epicly misinterprets a pretty obvious (imo) response supports people in real life; with a platonic reacharound?


Also, reading video game manuals is too hard I guess.

Modifié par Kolotosa, 31 mars 2011 - 08:49 .

[MelfinaofOutlawStar]

Hello ladies.

[Anarya]

leggywillow wrote...

Siduri wrote...
So, on your wedding invitations or your college admissions essays, you'll want to talk about the way Anders's lean, scarred frame shuddered under Fenris's touch.

BEST COLLEGE ADMISSION ESSAY EVER.

Embarassing disclosure: I wrote a college admission essay about how much I loved anime (back in ye olden days of 1999), and it worked.

Ohh to be 17 and foolish.

[shiba5]

Kolotosa wrote...

The "supportive" option in question that he picked was, "I like men with dark pasts <3."

Which leads me to wonder how someone who so epicly misinterprets a pretty obvious (imo) response supports people in real life; with a platonic reacharound?

BRB... going to try this out.

[Anarya]

Kolotosa wrote...

Ryzaki wrote...

I will never understand how you can pick a glowing heart and not expect something romantic.

Though that comic is hilarious.

ikr? I read a thread here yesterday where the guy was like "I THOUGHT I WAS BEING SUPPORTIVE OF HIM WTF GHEYS!"

The "supportive" option in question that he picked was, "I like men with dark pasts <3."

Which leads me to wonder how someone who so epicly misinterprets a pretty obvious (imo) response supports people in real life; with a platonic reacharound?


Also, reading video game manuals is too hard I guess.

This kind of thing always cracks me up, but I fully understand that some people are just that oblivious. It never stops being funny though.

Actually my own BF got "ninjamanced" by Merrill, and by that I mean he clicked the heart icon and then was shocked when sexytimes ensued. I just facepalmed at him, but I'm 80% sure he would have accidentally fallen into bed with Zevran had he played Origins.

[mellifera]

Kolotosa wrote...

Ryzaki wrote...

I will never understand how you can pick a glowing heart and not expect something romantic.

Though that comic is hilarious.

ikr? I read a thread here yesterday where the guy was like "I THOUGHT I WAS BEING SUPPORTIVE OF HIM WTF GHEYS!"

The "supportive" option in question that he picked was, "I like men with dark pasts <3."

Which leads me to wonder how someone who so epicly misinterprets a pretty obvious (imo) response supports people in real life; with a platonic reacharound?


Also, reading video game manuals is too hard I guess.

That's not normal?

[MelfinaofOutlawStar]

Lonely nerds with no experience being social perhaps?

[Ryzaki]

Kolotosa wrote...
ikr? I read a thread here yesterday where the guy was like "I THOUGHT I WAS BEING SUPPORTIVE OF HIM WTF GHEYS!"

The "supportive" option in question that he picked was, "I like men with dark pasts <3."

Which leads me to wonder how someone who so epicly misinterprets a pretty obvious (imo) response supports people in real life; with a platonic reacharound?


Also, reading video game manuals is too hard I guess.

*rolls*

 

How anyone can get that confused astounds me. 

And yeah. The fact that it's all there in the manual doesn't make them look any better. 

[Sialater]

Siduri wrote...

Kawamura wrote...

Anders' is the possessive. Anders's is a contraction of "Anders is".

I'm pretty certain of that.

No, you're getting confused with the rule for "its" and "it's". "It's" is always a contraction of "it is," while "its" is the possessive form.

Names don't follow the same rule, though. There is no formally-correct way to contract "Anders is," and if you're trying to capture the way a person can slur those words while speaking, you'd write "Anders 's" (as in, "Sorry, can't talk, Anders 's goin' ta blow up th' Chantry now, 'n I gotta get anuther pint b'fore the torch-wieldin' mobs storm the Hanged Man.")

The rule for the possessive apostrophe, when applied to proper names ending in S, used to be that you had to add the additional S afterwards unless the name was a classical or Biblical one. So: it's Jesus' loincloth, and Socrates' toga, but it's Anders's weird gray bib.

This is confusing and sometimes awkward, so it's becoming increasingly acceptable to leave off the extra S in all cases. The Chicago Manual of Style allows this as "an alternative practice." I personally leave off the extra S in all cases except the very most formal. So, on your wedding invitations or your college admissions essays, you'll want to talk about the way Anders's lean, scarred frame shuddered under Fenris's touch.

In less formal contexts you can just inform everyone that it was Anders' hazel amber eyes that flared with lust at Fenris' approach.

And that's the rule.

Exactly.  And thank you for such... vivid... examples.  :innocent:

[YamiSnuffles]

It boggles my mind why people are so offended by this. I mean, when Leliana said she loved my female Warden I didn't have a meltdown. If anything, I felt bad for leading her on accidentally. Really, flirting seems like a compliment. That person likes you. They see something special in you. What is there to rage about there?

As to the people that hit on him first... really, they should just be raging about how inept they are. BW made it pretty obvious when you were going to be hitting on someone.

[Sjofn]

Kolotosa wrote...

Ryzaki wrote...

I will never understand how you can pick a glowing heart and not expect something romantic.

Though that comic is hilarious.

ikr? I read a thread here yesterday where the guy was like "I THOUGHT I WAS BEING SUPPORTIVE OF HIM WTF GHEYS!"

The "supportive" option in question that he picked was, "I like men with dark pasts <3."

Which leads me to wonder how someone who so epicly misinterprets a pretty obvious (imo) response supports people in real life; with a platonic reacharound?


Also, reading video game manuals is too hard I guess.

Yeah, I used to be all "How could people MISTAKENLY sleep with Zevran? It is hilariously obvious what's going to happen! The only way to make it more obvious would be, I don't know, put a giant heart next to the YES LET'S HAVE THE SEXYTIMES answers!"

Apparently that is not a solution either. It's ... it's very weird, that's what it is.

[mellifera]

Sialater wrote...

Siduri wrote...

Kawamura wrote...

Anders' is the possessive. Anders's is a contraction of "Anders is".

I'm pretty certain of that.

No, you're getting confused with the rule for "its" and "it's". "It's" is always a contraction of "it is," while "its" is the possessive form.

Names don't follow the same rule, though. There is no formally-correct way to contract "Anders is," and if you're trying to capture the way a person can slur those words while speaking, you'd write "Anders 's" (as in, "Sorry, can't talk, Anders 's goin' ta blow up th' Chantry now, 'n I gotta get anuther pint b'fore the torch-wieldin' mobs storm the Hanged Man.")

The rule for the possessive apostrophe, when applied to proper names ending in S, used to be that you had to add the additional S afterwards unless the name was a classical or Biblical one. So: it's Jesus' loincloth, and Socrates' toga, but it's Anders's weird gray bib.

This is confusing and sometimes awkward, so it's becoming increasingly acceptable to leave off the extra S in all cases. The Chicago Manual of Style allows this as "an alternative practice." I personally leave off the extra S in all cases except the very most formal. So, on your wedding invitations or your college admissions essays, you'll want to talk about the way Anders's lean, scarred frame shuddered under Fenris's touch.

In less formal contexts you can just inform everyone that it was Anders' hazel amber eyes that flared with lust at Fenris' approach.

And that's the rule.

Exactly.  And thank you for such... vivid... examples.  :innocent:

I love this thread. Hilarious AND informative. Like Mordin Solus (but only half as sexy, sorry).

[Purposeof-Flight]

YamiSnuffles wrote...

It boggles my mind why people are so offended by this. I mean, when Leliana said she loved my female Warden I didn't have a meltdown. If anything, I felt bad for leading her on accidentally. Really, flirting seems like a compliment. That person likes you. They see something special in you. What is there to rage about there?

As to the people that hit on him first... really, they should just be raging about how inept they are. BW made it pretty obvious when you were going to be hitting on someone.

I was confused.
I didn't have a helpful heart icon, so I had no clue I was flirting with her at all. Then all of the sudden, she starts barking at me for romancing Zevran, and I'm like, "Errrr....why would it matter to you?"

[Ninche]

There should just be a version for stupids and children which disables the heart shaped response and turns the blood spatters into kittens.

[Purposeof-Flight]

Sjofn wrote...

Kolotosa wrote...

Ryzaki wrote...

I will never understand how you can pick a glowing heart and not expect something romantic.

Though that comic is hilarious.

ikr? I read a thread here yesterday where the guy was like "I THOUGHT I WAS BEING SUPPORTIVE OF HIM WTF GHEYS!"

The "supportive" option in question that he picked was, "I like men with dark pasts <3."

Which leads me to wonder how someone who so epicly misinterprets a pretty obvious (imo) response supports people in real life; with a platonic reacharound?


Also, reading video game manuals is too hard I guess.

Yeah, I used to be all "How could people MISTAKENLY sleep with Zevran? It is hilariously obvious what's going to happen! The only way to make it more obvious would be, I don't know, put a giant heart next to the YES LET'S HAVE THE SEXYTIMES answers!"

Apparently that is not a solution either. It's ... it's very weird, that's what it is.

Because they WANTED to have sexytime with Zevran, then felt ashamed, then went to complain about it to make themselves feel better.
<_<

[Ryzaki]

Zevran is hilariously easy to avoid.

...Leliana on the other hand...

[Anarya]

Ninche wrote...

There should just be a version for stupids and children which disables the heart shaped response and turns the blood spatters into kittens.

I don't like this idea. Anders is ranged which means he would be least likely to be covered in kittens, and can you imagine how cranky he would be then? Terrible.

[Ninche]

Anarya wrote...

Ninche wrote...

There should just be a version for stupids and children which disables the heart shaped response and turns the blood spatters into kittens.

I don't like this idea. Anders is ranged which means he would be least likely to be covered in kittens, and can you imagine how cranky he would be then? Terrible.

Depends how far the kitten spatters fly really. They can be ninja kittens. 

Every time you cut someone to pieces they can jump out with an adorable MEOW sound and land straight on Anders' head. 

[Kawamura]

Ah. I wasn't confusing it's and its. I learned English reading/spelling/grammar mostly on the KJV Bible and Jesus' and that sort of thing. Jesus' is my always example if the rule.

[SurelyForth]

Obviously BW needs to take a page from Bethesda/Obsidians's playbook and make gayness a trait or perk that the player picks on their own.

Only, because people are stupid, the description and icon for the traits/perks will have to be so sexually explicit that people will complain that, just by seeing them, the gay was forced upon them.

Modifié par SurelyForth, 31 mars 2011 - 09:08 .

[Purposeof-Flight]

Did anyone notice that the music that plays on the Wounded Coast is eerily similar to the music that plays in ME2 when you're looking at your map? Or is it just me?
I just figured I'd ask. lol

[Ninche]

Purposeof-Flight wrote...

Did anyone notice that the music that plays on the Wounded Coast is eerily similar to the music that plays in ME2 when you're looking at your map? Or is it just me?
I just figured I'd ask. lol

Dont know about ME2 but it's the lake Calenhad track from origins. 

[Anarya]

Purposeof-Flight wrote...

Did anyone notice that the music that plays on the Wounded Coast is eerily similar to the music that plays in ME2 when you're looking at your map? Or is it just me?
I just figured I'd ask. lol

It is sort of similar. Both of them are so soothing.