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Post by Becca Mills on Jul 12, 2017 14:28:36 GMT -5
Apparently, The New Yorker thinks this is the best way to punctuate the possessive version of the name of Donald Trump's elder son: Donald Trump, Jr.,'s. As in, "Donald Trump, Jr.,'s Love for X, Y, or Z." Didn't quite catch that? I'll say it again ... Jr.,'sI have to admit, when I read their reasoning -- www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-correct-punctuation-of-donald-trump-jrs-name -- it makes sense. On the other hand, it just can't be. I mean, it looks *so wrong*. Solution?? |
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Post by Suzy on Jul 12, 2017 16:14:32 GMT -5
I'd say you have to remove the fulll stop (period in the US), and get JR's. Or say : the *whatever* of Trump JR.
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Post by carlos on Jul 12, 2017 17:42:32 GMT -5
I think so too--the period looked out of place to me. However, I am no expert on punctuation--I punctuate by sound--which means I have lots of commas--and more than the usual number of parentheses--but maybe not enough of other things which you can't detect by reading aloud.
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Post by Becca Mills on Jul 13, 2017 0:09:07 GMT -5
I'd say you have to remove the fulll stop (period in the US), and get JR's. Or say : the *whatever* of Trump JR. That'd be my impulse too. And yet I also think one needs commas around "Jr." after someone's name. Conundrum!! |
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Post by Pru Freda on Jul 13, 2017 0:17:19 GMT -5
It certainly looks ugly. Maybe that's what you get for having the megalomania to name your offspring after yourself.  As a Brit, I'd say it is the comma that is misplaced - Donald Trump Jr.'s blah blah, would be fine. |
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Post by Becca Mills on Jul 13, 2017 0:33:14 GMT -5
It certainly looks ugly. Maybe that's what you get for having the megalomania to name your offspring after yourself. Considering that it's in The New Yorker (very much a magazine of the U.S. liberal urban "elite"), I doubt he'll ever have to see the punctuation horror he created.  |
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Post by ameliasmith on Jul 13, 2017 7:05:26 GMT -5
Speaking of New Yorker punctuation, have any of you read Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen? It's by a New Yorker editor, and is quite entertaining. Having read it, none of this surprises me. I would drop the commas around Jr., personally, but I can understand the logic of keeping them there. |
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Post by Miss Terri Novelle on Jul 13, 2017 9:05:47 GMT -5
That's hideous
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Post by quinning on Jul 13, 2017 9:22:39 GMT -5
That's my thought too. It seems like there should be some concern for the aesthetics of written language. Especially when a rule is so infrequently implemented that the masses wouldn't notice. I wonder if they would have gotten more or fewer comments if they had titled it with "Jr.'s" or Jr's?" The first looks most correct to me, but I doubt I would have cared to write in either way... |
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Post by Becca Mills on Jul 13, 2017 13:03:42 GMT -5
Speaking of New Yorker punctuation, have any of you read Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen? It's by a New Yorker editor, and is quite entertaining. Having read it, none of this surprises me. I would drop the commas around Jr., personally, but I can understand the logic of keeping them there. Going to add that to my TBR list, Amelia! |
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Post by elephantsbookshelf on Aug 6, 2017 9:41:25 GMT -5
She's a fun one to listen to, too. Mary Norris. I work for a publication that may have been the bastard child of the New Yorker and the Chicago Manual of Style, so this looked perfectly normal to me.
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