"Windows is activated"

Dave said:
As I understand it you're saying that the apostrophe can only mean "is" for a third person singular subject? The apostrophe shorthand is also fine for "has" - "Britain's" can mean "Britain is" or "Britain has", and which one is given by the context. For example, you'd say "John's gone to the shops", which is clearly a present perfect aspect rather than a present passive or incorrectly stated present continuous.
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I corrected my last post, I should have said it should be "Britain Has Talent", the 'got' shouldn't be there at all.
 
csmager said:
It apparently stood for N10, the code name for the Intel processor it targeted. It was the marketing people who came up with the "New Technology", which was later dropped and have "no specific meaning".

Well, that's what Wikipedia says ;)
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I'm getting deja vu, I'm sure this exact annoyance and explanation have been brought up before.
 
If you have ground something up and then formed it back into shape have you re-formed it (with a hyphen) or just reformed it?

I ask because my chippy sells scampi and underneath the sign in small text it says "made with reformed scampi" and it always makes me chuckle because I just imagine a small lobster saying "I used to be a right wroggun I did, but now I'm going straight" just before being coated in breadcrumbs and fried. Seems like it should be hyphenated to mean re-shaped.
 
Britons have talent - referring to the inhabitants rather than the geo-political area.

Except for those who appear on the show that is.
 
nkata said:
Britons have talent - referring to the inhabitants rather than the geo-political area.

Except for those who appear on the show that is.
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Well yes that is an alternative, point is "Britian's Got Talent" is wrong and it should either be 'Britain Has Talent' or 'Britons Have Talent' or 'The British Have Talent' etc etc etc
 
estebanrey said:
I ask because my chippy sells scampi and underneath the sign in small text it says "made with reformed scampi" and it always makes me chuckle because I just imagine a small lobster saying "I used to be a right wroggun I did, but now I'm going straight" just before being coated in breadcrumbs and fried. Seems like it should be hyphenated to mean re-shaped.
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LOL :). I definately want to come to your chippy - I mean who the hell wants to eat scampi of dubious moral virtue?
 
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