In regard to your signature: If you want to appear merely paranoid and libelous, instead of paranoid, libelous, and ignorant, you should learn to pluralize your words correctly.
You appear to be laboring under the misconception that any appending of a letter 's' to a word is a pluralization. I believe that you intended to point out an improper third-person singular conjugation of the verb "to claim."
While you are correct in your determination that MP3 ought to be pluralized here, you are pluralizing it incorrectly. Acronyms, especially when formed of capital letters, are pluralized with an apostrophe and the letter "s." The correct pluralization of "MP3" is "MP3's."
Also, you don't pluralize words by adding "'s" to the end of them.
I concur wholeheartedly. However, acronyms are commonly pluralized in that way, e.g., "I just bought a gross of ASIC's and a half dozen EPROM's. Somebody get the vaseline and feathers."
That kind of shows you how muchs clerks think about what there doing vs. doing it by rout. muchs - I'll accept that this was just a typo. there - This is a contraction of "they are," and should read, "they're" rout - I believe you mean "rote."
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That was an incredibly civil response to my juvenile posturing. Considering that my nick is "Pluralization Troll" I will attempt to elicit harsher responses in the future.
Let us now look at your usage of apostrophes, pluralization, and more generally, other words ending in the letter "s."
reason's - This is the simple pluralization of a noun. The apostrophe is incorrect. solaris - This is a trademarked name, used as a proper noun. This should be capitalized. workstations - Here you have properly pluralized a noun, which also happens to be a compund word. computations - Again, you have properly pluralized a noun. However, "computation" also functions as a collective noun, in need of no additional pluralization. Solaris - Good! In this instance, you've appropriately capitalized this proper noun. sucks - Here we see the correct third person nominative conjugation of the verb, "to suck." Well done. pages - This is a proper pluralization. utilities - Here is the another correct pluralization, this time of an irregularly pluralized noun, "utility." aspects - Once again, you have shown competence in pluralizing a regular noun. You enjoy a better command of the English language than your subject line suggests! effectiveness - Here you have nominalized the adjective, "effective," (which is iself derived from the verb, "to effect.") There is usually no temptation to incorrectly use an apostrophe on nominalization suffixes, so your usage is unexceptional. things - Your final pluralization is another correct one.
My overall impression is that the stray apostrpohe in your subject line is anomalous, and does not represent a greater pattern of improper pluralization.
In regard to the phrase, "...ability to script your work easy..." (emphasis added), the word "easy" is intended to modify the verb "to script." When modifying a verb or an adjective, you must use an adverb instead of another adjective. The phrase, correctly written, would be "...ability to script your work easily."
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Neither is your incorrect use of the contraction of "you are" in place of the possessive pronoun, "your."
Contrast your post with this proper use of apostrophes and pluralization: It's Nazis, not "nazi's," you freakin' 'tard.
In regard to your signature: If you want to appear merely paranoid and libelous, instead of paranoid, libelous, and ignorant, you should learn to pluralize your words correctly.
While you are correct in your determination that MP3 ought to be pluralized here, you are pluralizing it incorrectly. Acronyms, especially when formed of capital letters, are pluralized with an apostrophe and the letter "s." The correct pluralization of "MP3" is "MP3's."
I concur wholeheartedly. However, acronyms are commonly pluralized in that way, e.g., "I just bought a gross of ASIC's and a half dozen EPROM's. Somebody get the vaseline and feathers."
Thank you.
Forgive me for overstepping my charter, but it's "Thundarr the Barbarian."
That kind of shows you how muchs clerks think about what there doing vs. doing it by rout.
muchs - I'll accept that this was just a typo.
there - This is a contraction of "they are," and should read, "they're"
rout - I believe you mean "rote."
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I have learned no such lesson about criticizing others' grammar.
Oh wait, never mind.
That was an incredibly civil response to my juvenile posturing. Considering that my nick is "Pluralization Troll" I will attempt to elicit harsher responses in the future.
It won't solve Apple's grammatical mistakes, mister.
reason's - This is the simple pluralization of a noun. The apostrophe is incorrect.
solaris - This is a trademarked name, used as a proper noun. This should be capitalized.
workstations - Here you have properly pluralized a noun, which also happens to be a compund word.
computations - Again, you have properly pluralized a noun. However, "computation" also functions as a collective noun, in need of no additional pluralization.
Solaris - Good! In this instance, you've appropriately capitalized this proper noun.
sucks - Here we see the correct third person nominative conjugation of the verb, "to suck." Well done.
pages - This is a proper pluralization.
utilities - Here is the another correct pluralization, this time of an irregularly pluralized noun, "utility."
aspects - Once again, you have shown competence in pluralizing a regular noun. You enjoy a better command of the English language than your subject line suggests!
effectiveness - Here you have nominalized the adjective, "effective," (which is iself derived from the verb, "to effect.") There is usually no temptation to incorrectly use an apostrophe on nominalization suffixes, so your usage is unexceptional.
things - Your final pluralization is another correct one.
My overall impression is that the stray apostrpohe in your subject line is anomalous, and does not represent a greater pattern of improper pluralization.
In regard to the phrase, "...ability to script your work easy..." (emphasis added), the word "easy" is intended to modify the verb "to script." When modifying a verb or an adjective, you must use an adverb instead of another adjective. The phrase, correctly written, would be "...ability to script your work easily."