Language questions

[Spider]

Its one 'post' per topic for 'best answer' :) I usually turn that off but I thought I'd enable ti for a few forum area's as it may of been useful. It also highlights it at the top of the page too. Feel free to 'play' with it.

[jetsetdanny]

R. D. Foord Software's version of "JSW" 

 

or

 

R. D. Foord Software version of "JSW"?

 

 

 

"R. D. Foord Software" is the name of the publisher here.

 

 

So this is equivalent to:

 

 

Software Projects' version of "MM"  / Bug-Byte's version of "MM"

 

or 

 

Software Projects version of "MM"  / Bug-Byte version of "MM"

 

 

Which is correct (or better, if both options are correct)?

[IRF]

I would either go with the apostrophe, or else say "the R. D. Foord Software version".

[jetsetdanny]

Thanks, Ian, it's very helpful!

 

Would it work the same with authors' names, e.g.

 

Jet Set Willy - Elon Musk's version

 

or (equally correct)

 

Jet Set Willy - The Elon Musk version ?

[IRF]

I would probably go with the apostrophe in that case, because you're referring to a person rather than an 'entity', so it seems more personal.

 

e.g. I would refer to "Geoff Eddy's rewrite of the game engine" rather than "the Geoff Eddy rewrite of the game engine".

 

On the other hand, I would say "There are a lot of novel features in the Geoff Mode game engine".

[jetsetdanny]

Thanks, Ian! :)

[jetsetdanny]

An interesting article about whether or not "internet" should be capitalised, and how the UK leads the trend to write it in lower case.