On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:46:36 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:

In article , Commander Kinsey
wrote:

On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:47:24 +0100, GB wrote:

On 6/13/2019 2:24 PM, ARW wrote:
On 12/06/2019 19:56, GB wrote:
On 6/12/2019 10:47 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 18:36:59 +0100, GB wrote:

On 6/12/2019 10:28 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 18:23:22 +0100, Tim Streater
wrote:

In article , Bob Pringle
wrote:

On 6/12/2019 1:02 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
This is insane. Legally (like anyone pays any attention to these
laws) you
cannot do simple things like fitting an electrical socket to your
own home,
but you can change the brakes on your car. The second one is
FAR more
dangerous to other people!


https://www.mglondon.uk/blog/electri...ed-an-electric
ian/


It's not about safety. The electrician's union owns more government
lawmakers
than the mechanic's union.

Which electrician and which mechanic are you referring to?

Did you read his post at all? He referred to a union, not an
individual.

Did you not see where the apostrophes were at all? They referred to an
individual's union in each case.

You make the assumption he's one of the few who puts the apostrophes
in the right place.

He's obviously not.

Most will write "electrician's union" to mean the union for all
electricians.

Only the illiterate would do that...the same sort of people who think
plural's take apostrophe's.


So Plural and his mates have stolen apostrophe's apostrophe?

It's certainly beginning to look that way.

Talking of it's. Explain to me, logically, not just "it's the rules", why
it's cannot be possessive. John's car. Fred's motorcycle.
The tree's leaves. It's doorhandle.

"it's" is short for "it is", that's why. And yes, there's some
confusion in that:

John's car
John's going to the shops (John is going to the shops)

look a bit similar.

And so could it's and it's. No reason to have a difference between John and it. They are both entities which own something.

In the same way, "who's" is short for "who is", and we use "whose" for
the possessive.

You just have to think about what you're writing, is all. And not write
"loose" when you mean "lose", not write "a criteria" when you mean "a
criterion", and understand why:

She gave it to John and I --- is wrong
She gave it to John and me --- is right

Who gives a **** about that?