From: Robert Dober Date: 2008-05-26T03:24:02+09:00 Subject: Re: #plural? or #singular? On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Dave Bass wrote: > Mark Wilden wrote: >> My favourite (sic) is the British use of the possessive for no reason: >> "We're going to Tesco's". :) > > I think you'll find it's short for "We're going to Tesco's [store]". And if I might add, I guess this too will be used frequently: We're going to Tesco's because *they* have some new -- dunoo what they are selling tho ;) Which, if applied often in the training text might become some strange plural form, but I am really imagining here ;) But in reality we are not talking plural or singular form anymore we are right into the miraculous wonders of languages where social context mixes with syntax, semantics and meaning. Cheers Robert http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/ --- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein