On Jan 24, 2009, at 13:12 , Doug wrote:
On Jan 24, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote:
If she was still alive, my mother would see to it that they
corrected their error! :-)
It may have become absorbed into correctness by usage, but by
definition, else cannot possess, one can.
All due respect to your mom, but she would have been wrong.
Indefinite pronouns that are followed by "else" are then stripped of
the possessive, transferring it to the "else."
Extensive research into the matter seems to be heavily weighted in
your favor, Doug. I did however find many instances of the usage
"someone's else" in various literary publications.
"The opening film, "Ivan's Childhood"(1962), is Tarkovsky's first
film. It features an orphan who works as the agent for the Soviet
partisans against the Nazis. The film was originally someone's else
work. Tarkovsky rewrote the script to make it a stunning film with
haunting and poetic images. It received the Golden Lion Award at the
Venice Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the San Francisco Film
Festival in 1962."
And most surprisingly, I found this from the
"COMPREHENSIVE COURSE GUIDE
COURSE DEPARTMENT AND NUMBER: ENGL 2230
TITLE: Professional and Technical Writing
"IV. Plagiarism: Presenting someone's else's phrasing and/or ideas as
one's own will result in a 0 for the assignment and may result in an F
for the course.
which I guess covers all bases at Darton College, a two-year unit of
the University System of Georgia, located in Albany.
Joseph McAllister
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