Ok So These Vandals Are On Film, I Look Forward To Their Prosecutions...

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52954305
....and don;' give me any "slave trader" ***, It's criminal damage pure and simple.

[Peter Pedant]

// 4 Apr 2020 - SAXON GENITIVE. A term for the forms of the possessive associated with the APOSTROPHE (boy's, boys'), so called because, along with the plural ending, they are the only noun inflections surviving from Old English or Anglo-Saxon.//

eek I didnt do genitive plurals !

Yeah Jacko - I did science at uni and not anglo saxon

[Atheist]

Yes, Roy. Do you get it? Old fashioned talk. "The King his knight Sir Roy has left the round table." Old fashioned but just about intelligible. I'm no linguist, so I might be wrong, but that's what I always understood.

[Peter Pedant]

// Jack's comes from the original 'Jack his'; //

no it didnt ! it came from anglo saxon

"Jack's comes from the original 'Jack his'; " is an eighteenth century misconstruction or bad derivation from Jane Austen's time
(because it is NEVER right to say Jane Austen his time -) Jane Austen's time. ergo)

this impt pt qualifies my entry as BA

[royfromaus]

No, I don't get it.

[Peter Pedant]

// I'm no linguist, so I might be wrong, but that's what I always understood.//

agreed on all points

no linguist - yes wrong - understand something else from tonight

[Atheist]

I suppose we just accept current 'correct' usage. I must say that it's far more interesting discussing points like this in a civilised manner rahter than shouting personal prejudice points as though they are self evidently true without any rational justification.

[ToraToraTora]

interesting how the left have the power to have something removed by alleging racism even if there is none.

[Jackdaw33]

In old English possession was shown by adding 'es' to the noun. The e ceased to be pronounced and was replaced by an apostrophe.

[Atheist]

sorry, should have been 'rafter' from middle English. That would have made sense.

[ToraToraTora]

if you guys want to argue the toss about grammar start your own thread.

[Atheist]

Sorry TTT. I must have missed something. Did some 'Lefty' get something removed? What did you say that was misconstrued as 'racist'?

[Atheist]

TTT but then you'd have no-one to argue with!

[Atheist]

TTT, perhaps if you asked a question rather than simply spelling out your simplistic right wing position on complex matters you might get a more interesting response. This is 'answerbank', not 'Hey, I'm a Rightie; agree with me!'

[ToraToraTora]

well at least you've stopped arguing about grammar! PMSL!

[ToraToraTora]

so concern for law and order is a trait only of the right wing then? Right oh! That does explain a lot.

[Mozz71]

//so concern for law and order is a trait only of the right wing then? Right oh! That does explain a lot.//

What? Because some old white men have no idea what's racist and what isn't? Removing that crap from the thread has nothing to do with condoning the violence going on.

[ToraToraTora]

mozz: athiest was accusing me of a right wing position. This post is about the mindless violence, vandalism and thuggery. He chooses to attack me rather than condemn the afore mentioned violence, vandalism and thuggery. What conclusion should I draw?

[Mozz71]

You bought up "law and order" and your opinion that the left have no interest in it. From what I can see, Atheist commented on your complaint about the BA being (rightfully) deleted.

[gulliver1]

22 05, Spot on. If this was my thread you would awarded best Answer with,
"Laurel Leaves". PMSL!

[ToraToraTora]

//You bought up "law and order" // - yes that is the purpose of this thread //and your opinion that the left have no interest in it// - well athiest specifically chose to assign me the label of a right winger for bringing this up rather that condemn the violence, what am I supposed to draw from that? //From what I can see, Atheist commented on your complaint about the BA being (rightfully) deleted. // - yes it was determined to be right wing by the judgers of such things, it was not, it was accurate if a little inconvenient.