Thoughts on YWS 3.0

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




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Okay, I get it now. Sorry! :)
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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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