Re: Rule about not using possessive?

Subject: Re: Rule about not using possessive?
From: "Lurker writer" <lurker_writer -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 10:08:31 -0500

Sorry...I didn't mean for my reply to Lisa/all to sound so sweeping; of course, if the proper context is conveyed in the translation, then there shouldn't be a problem, even though some technical writing handbooks state that possessives do create problems for translations.



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