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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis recent photo of Trump reminded me
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of his fellow faux populists in the superb animated feature Animal Farm (1954). The pigheadedness (understandable in the 2nd photo) and arrogance are there for all to see except for the willingly blind.
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Botany
(70,291 posts)Good
lame54
(35,138 posts)volstork
(5,394 posts)n/t
coti
(4,612 posts)tblue37
(64,980 posts)volstork
(5,394 posts)n/t
lame54
(35,138 posts)Neither looked right
coti
(4,612 posts)tblue37
(64,980 posts)volstork's question: "Boxer's what?"
coti
(4,612 posts)and other proper nouns that can't be literally pluralized (i.e., you can't actually have more than one "Boxer" character- that doesn't make sense), an apostrophe is added to give an implied maintenance of the proper noun's singularity, while still acknowledging the intent of the writer to refer to some larger number of the character.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)If you write "We are all Boxers", it is clear that the Boxer people are separate people, hence plural.
At the family reunion the Boxers were joyous.
In the many Animal Farm films and videos, the Boxers are voiced by different actors.
The possessive of a plural drops an S.
The kids' bikes were scattered on the ground.
rather than
The kids's bikes were scattered on the ground. (kidses is the wrong pronunciation -- just kids -- hence the first form.)
Likewise the plural of a name ending in S.
Moses' tablets are lost.
coti
(4,612 posts)originally named Boxer- more than one actual character named "Boxer." For example, "Boxers" would mean, in the event there are two (as opposed to more), there is a horse character named Boxer that's brown, and another, totally separate horse character named Boxer that's black. That's two "Boxers," which isn't what the writer meant at all. Thus the apostrophe, to attempt to imply the singular character.
Another example where it would be appropriate to use such a proper noun without an apostrophe is where there is, indeed, more than one entity referred to by the proper noun. For example, the sentence: "All them Trumps is cheats, chiselers and swindlers." In that sentence, there are many separate entities who fall under the proper "Trump" category, thus it is right to just thrown on the "s" at the end of the word.
The examples you gave uphold this distinction.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He is, without a doubt, the ugliest man I have ever seen in my life.
OMGWTF
(3,896 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)However, pigs are appropriate, and the movie poster is apropos is a lot of ways.
tRump pretends to be "a man of the people", and he uses that canard as an appeal to his base who have bought it hook, line, and sinker.
But he behaves as if some are more equal than others and that he is the absolute most equal of all and hence entitled to everything.
magicarpet
(13,941 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Now in this this one, where he could not do that, he is still holding his arms tightly.
I'm thinking ...to hide tremors????
Backseat Driver
(4,339 posts)mind, a closed position, a highly self-only protective posture against an invisible fear and a lack of confidence in doing what is "good." This is exactly how we know that he cannot control his impulses of any and every evil - more's the pity if he actually realizes it which I doubt. He is an expert, however, in causing chaos by virtue of the breath he breathes, which no one needs.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Announcer: "Now stay tuned for Conjunction Junction."
(I'm just messin' with the whole gang at this point.)
eleny
(46,166 posts)Lord Ludd
(585 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,217 posts)He says he could be like George Washington but that would be too dull.
You betcha.
Thanks, Lord Ludd. Welcome to D.U.
Lord Ludd
(585 posts)malaise
(267,813 posts)I mean perfect
Dem2theMax
(9,595 posts)One could almost swear he posed for it.
safeinOhio
(32,531 posts)All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. A proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)How much higher stack of cards can he build... without paying for any of it? Expect the priggish piggy to get worse, far worse. I'm certain the dietary mismanagement is contributing to this as well.
I'd far rather look at someone who has hard earned grey hair now... but... still fun, sexy beefcake of a man, whoo-eee:
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George II
(67,782 posts)calimary
(80,699 posts)2naSalit
(86,054 posts)Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)Scarily like Animal Farm.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)A hog with malice. How true!
Skittles
(152,964 posts)misanthrope
(7,405 posts)and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."