Comments on: Calling It For Rebecca Otto https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/12/calling-it-for-rebecca-otto/ Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:43:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/12/calling-it-for-rebecca-otto/#comment-481455 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 13:43:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20185#comment-481455 I guess so.

]]> By: cosmicomics https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/12/calling-it-for-rebecca-otto/#comment-481454 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 06:23:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20185#comment-481454 Greg –
Thanks. But I hope you can see why, after the preceding criticisms, it was easy to misinterpret your remark.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/12/calling-it-for-rebecca-otto/#comment-481453 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:31:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20185#comment-481453 In reply to cosmicomics.

Oh FFS I was not speaking to you, or about that mistake.

]]> By: cosmicomics https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/12/calling-it-for-rebecca-otto/#comment-481452 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:07:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20185#comment-481452 “I’m not sure you’ve identified a mistake here…”

You don’t have to take my word for it:

whose
pronoun
1. (the possessive case of who used as an adjective):
Whose umbrella did I take? Whose is this one?
2. (the possessive case of which used as an adjective):
a word whose meaning escapes me; an animal whose fur changes color.
3. the one or ones belonging to what person or persons:
Whose painting won the third prize?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/whose

For a direct comparison between who’s and whose:
http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/english-mistakes/whos-vs-whose/
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/who%27s.html
http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/whos_whose.htm

]]> By: cosmicomics https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/12/calling-it-for-rebecca-otto/#comment-481451 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:47:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20185#comment-481451 Howard –
Do you know what septic means?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/12/calling-it-for-rebecca-otto/#comment-481450 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:57:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20185#comment-481450 In reply to Howard.

Are you volunteering to be my volunteer editor? In any event I’m not sure you’ve identified a mistake here…

]]> By: Howard https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/12/calling-it-for-rebecca-otto/#comment-481449 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:53:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20185#comment-481449 “climate septics”

PROOF READ!

]]> By: elspi https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/12/calling-it-for-rebecca-otto/#comment-481448 Thu, 14 Aug 2014 18:16:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20185#comment-481448 Nobody expects the Grammar Nazis.

]]> By: cosmicomics https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/08/12/calling-it-for-rebecca-otto/#comment-481447 Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:19:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20185#comment-481447 “Rebecca Otto, … who’s [sic] husband is a friend…”

This is the kind of English I expect from climate septics.

Who’s = who is, who has
Whose = possessive of who:
Whose pen is this?
Rebecca Otto, whose husband is a friend…

PROOF READ!

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