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From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 19:37 Evan Kirshenbaum wrote: > >> I suspect that you could find people celebrating Pesach, Purim, Rosh > >> Hashanah, and Yom Kippur in as many countries as any four Christian > >> holidays. > > > > Well, yes, but not _more people_. > > Is that how you construe "more international"? By that measure, > Gandhi's birthday or the PRC's National Day are far more international > than any of the Jewish holidays (and, probably, many of the Christian > ones), even though they're celebrated in far few countries. I think you know what I mean. A national holiday can't be international no matter how many people there are observing it. Andrew Usher
From: Robert Bannister on 23 Feb 2010 19:47 Andrew Usher wrote: > Evan Kirshenbaum wrote: > >>> mine, yours, his, hers, its,ours, theirs. >>> >>> Not one possessive pronoun has an apostrophe. >> One should be sure of one's facts before making such assertions. (Or >> should that be "ones"?) > > 'One' is not, grammatically, a pronoun. It is a nominalised adjective > (the number one) that is used in place of a pronoun. > > Andrew Usher Are you positive it isn't related to French "on" (as opposed to French "un")? -- Rob Bannister
From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 19:47 Peter T. Daniels wrote: > > >> The word 'Christendom', which you used, would normally be taken to > > >> include the Eastern Orthodox. One wonders why you wouldn't. > > > > > They are among the many churches for which the Roman Catholic Church > > > (which may have been what you meant by "the Catholic Church"?) does > > > not speak. > > > > It's just that that's what he was saying. That the CC "hasn't spoken for all > > of Christendom" for "longer than half a millennium". > > That was I that said that. Count chevrons very carefully when deleting > attributions. His point, though, is still correct. > > You pretend not to know what "The Catholic Church" refers to, yet your > > answer is built on equating it with a certain church currently led by one > > Benedict XVI.- > > It is Usher who said "'The Church' refers to exactly one > organisation" (complete with the quaint British spelling). You have provided no evidence to refute that people in general context understand the phrase to particularly refer to that church headed by the Pope. Andrew Usher
From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 19:57 Jerry Friedman wrote: > I just dropped by rasfw, where people had discussed a different > proposal: > > http://individual.utoronto.ca/kalendis/symmetry.htm I would object to this because of the huge variation in month lengths. This is not only against the original purpose of months, but against the modern use of them as financial periods. Also, he has weeks starting on Monday, which I of course find unacceptable. Having a similar proposal with Sunday would make every month have Friday the 13th, which would hopefully get rid of that ridiculous superstitious concept. Andrew Usher
From: Andrew Usher on 23 Feb 2010 19:59
John Atkinson wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_genitive > > Constructions similar to the 'his' genitive do exist in many of the > world's languages, including Norwegian and, I understand, some German > varieties. In Afrikaans, it's the standard possessive construction. That's why I called it a common Germanic feature. Andrew Usher |