Grammar, Was: PLUG Logo Update!

[John (EBo) David]

there is also the drug addiction analogy of "users"... but I did not say
that...

back to my regularily scheduled writing...
 EBo --


Robert Bushman wrote:
> 
> IMHO, the two grammatically rational ones are "User" and "Users'":
> 
> User Group: a group whose elements are of type "User"
> Users' Group: a group owned by many users
> 
> Users Group: a group whose elements are of type array of users
> User's Group: a group owned by a single user
> 
> I would lean towards "User" as it has the least characters,
> and is the most used of the four options according to Google:
> "user group": 982,000
> "users group" & "users' group": 752,000 (can't get them separated)
> "user's group": 79,900
> 
> On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Robert N. Eaton wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 29 June 2002 03:38 pm, you wrote:
> > > Hmm...  Any English professors in the audience?  We could do:
> > >
> > > User
> > > Users
> > > User's
> > > Users'
> > >
> > > All of these examples can be found in use by other Linux groups on the
> > > 'net.  We're a group of "Linux users," but we're also a "user group."  So
> > > I guess it depends on where you put the emphasis on the phrase.  The Linux
> > > group in Portland uses:
> > > "Portland Linux Unix Group" which gets rid of the "is it plural or not"
> > > problem all together.  ;-)
> > > ~M
> > If you want to get excessively grammatical:
> >
> >       User = noun, sungular
> >       Users= noun, plural
> >       User's = noun, singular, possessive
> >       Users' = noun, plural, possessive
> >
> > Any of the four could grammatically appear before "Group" .
> >
> > "User's" implies "only one".  Sort of "I am the only Linux user."
> > "Users'" implies "many."  "I am one of many Linux users."
> > "User" and "Users" act as noun adjuncts; that is, nouns acting as adjectives
> > telling "what kind of" group just as in "school house" , "school" tells "what
> > kind of house.
> >
> > My choice would be "Users" as it implies multiple users, and lacks the
> > clutter of the apostrophe, which, in a logo, is really unnecessary.
> >
> > --
> > Bob Eaton
> >
> > Curiosity didn't kill the cat: it was lack of information.
> >
> > --
> > Bob Eaton
> >
> > Curiosity didn't kill the cat: it was lack of information.
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