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Young Writers Society


Thoughts on YWS 3.0



Rate YWS 3.0

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3 - Okay
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Total votes : 99


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Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:16 pm
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Nate says...



Fireweed wrote:I love the new look, and the logo is cool but SERIOUSLY needs an apostrophe. It's driving me insane...


If there was an apostrophe in Young Writers, that'd mean either a young writer or a group of young writers possess the society. Of course, that's not right; a society is an abstract thing and cannot be owned. Also, young writers is plural and society means, in this case, a group. So literally translated, Young Writers Society means A Group For Young Writers.

This is why if you ever read "Veterans Affairs" there is no apostrophe before or after the 's' in Veterans. You're showing plural, not possessive. An apostrophe is simply grammatically incorrect in these cases.

EDIT: Props to Cassandra for beating me to it! :P
  





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Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:43 pm
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Misty says...



PERFECTOMUNDO, is all I can say. I guess. :P I do miss Featured Story, though.
  





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Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:08 pm
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Fireweed says...



Okay, I get it now. Sorry! :)
"I myself am composed entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."- Augusten Burroughs
  





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helpless42 says...



IT ROCKS, I think. I haven't been on long enough to know what it was like before. he he he.
  








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