Talk:hier's
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Metaknowledge in topic RFD discussion: November 2018–October 2019
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Replaceable by an entry -'s, similar to English -'s (= is), German -'s, -s (= es (“it”))? --Magic Ivan (talk) 06:08 + 18:42, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
- Similar to English -s' as being a contraction of is, but not really similar to German -s. One advantage of a new entry Afrikaans -'s is that it will also cover the (easily attestable) forms ek's, julle's and hulle's. However, I see no need to delete the existing entries. They are similar to English here's and you're. --Lambiam 08:53, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
- At the risk of getting off-topic: I've created quite a few English contraction entries myself, but this makes me wonder why we have them. Isn't the 's of "here's" just as widely applicable as possessive 's, i.e. can't any word take an elided is? "Writing's easy. Conjugating's harder. Cat's in the house. Jacob's leaving. Sweden's cold." google books:"Dogs're", etc. Do we have some policy on which ones to include, the way we do on possessives? - -sche (discuss) 06:40, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
- Keep as creator. As Lambiam pointed out, we have such entries in English. It makes even more sense to have them for Afrikaans, where (at least as far as I know) -'s is not used on any old word, but principally on pronouns and certain adverbs. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 20:19, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
- Keep per above.
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 10:31, 17 December 2018 (UTC)