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p0inted t1_ixglx4v wrote

English is my second language, I find "America's" a little strange, I read it as "America is". I would instinctively write it as "Americas". Can someone enlighten me? 🙂

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Blazecan t1_ixgo04d wrote

An apostrophe, (‘), is used in two ways. The first is when combining words in a conjunction. For example, can’t stands for can not. The apostrophe can also be used to show ownership. In this case, “America’s first electronics Right to Repair Bill” means that this first electronics Right to Repair Bill belongs to America

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xternal7 t1_ixguhha wrote

Notable exception being pronouns, where [pronoun]'s means [pronoun] is, and [pronoun]s suggests possession because English says fuck you.

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vedyzal t1_ixh0lg6 wrote

huh? that's not how it works. Possession is a whole inflection in english. His, Hers, Theirs, Mine, etc. The 's thing is an abbreviation bc that's how every single language on earth works, they tend to have abbreviated forms of words and expressions. With all the valid criticisms you could've given (inconsistent spelling being a big one) this one just ain't it, chief.

I hate it when natives pretend that their language is "hard". It seems like a common attitude around the world. Native speakers are unable to objectively (if that was even a thing) discern how hard or easy their language is.

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wysiwywg t1_ixgngaa wrote

I believe the reason is that it implies ownership, hence written this way.

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LongjumpingMonitor32 t1_ixh3t4c wrote

All you need to know is that if you ever see anything come out of The States using AMERICA'S, it's most certainly going to imply that its US centric and has absolutely nothing to do with either Canada, Mexico, or South America. It's all nationalistic pertaining to the USA itself and nothing else. That's how we see ourselves. As someone else pointed out, a simple way to gesture self importance and an F U to everyone else.

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