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coti

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36. No, there is only one Boxer character. "Boxers" would imply more than one separate entity
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 08:21 PM
Mar 2020

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.

He looks like shit and that he is suffering Botany Mar 2020 #1
We're all Boxer's lame54 Mar 2020 #2
We're all Boxer's what? volstork Mar 2020 #5
Boxer is the horse in Animal Farm nt coti Mar 2020 #7
Volstork was pointing out the unwanted apostrophe in the preceding post. nt tblue37 Mar 2020 #9
Thank you. volstork Mar 2020 #10
I went back and forth on that... lame54 Mar 2020 #11
I think you did it right. "Boxers" would have looked even worse nt coti Mar 2020 #17
No. "Boxers" in that sentence is a plural, but the apostrophe wrongly makes it a possessive; hence tblue37 Mar 2020 #18
Yes. I understand the general rule for plurals and possessives. However, often with names coti Mar 2020 #19
Doesn't apply. The Boxers we become are all somewhat different and separate. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #24
No, there is only one Boxer character. "Boxers" would imply more than one separate entity coti Mar 2020 #36
The only possessive I can think of that drops the apostrophe is "its". . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #25
God, he is absolutely hideous. smirkymonkey Mar 2020 #3
Fugly inside and out. OMGWTF Mar 2020 #26
He evokes images of toads and Jabba the Hut even more than pigs, in my mind Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #28
Hideous - ineptitude & arrogance magicarpet Mar 2020 #4
In a lot of recent photos in a meeting trumps was folding his arms across his chest. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2020 #6
A closed posture, in body language speak, is a closed Backseat Driver Mar 2020 #12
He's a bad seed, from birth. Born bad. SammyWinstonJack Mar 2020 #35
Holding his left to avoid knocking the guy is polite. Holding both is defensive. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #30
Now was that trumps or trump's? (see above posts) CaptYossarian Mar 2020 #31
What a great find eleny Mar 2020 #8
Appreciation! nt Lord Ludd Mar 2020 #16
That's a great representation. His "inner" self is coming through loud & clear. Judi Lynn Mar 2020 #13
Thanks so much! nt Lord Ludd Mar 2020 #15
Pigfit malaise Mar 2020 #14
. Dem2theMax Mar 2020 #20
Amazing likeness! Dem2theMax Mar 2020 #21
and then there is this.... safeinOhio Mar 2020 #22
I noticed in another photo of him earlier how the confabulations are wearing him out lambchopp59 Mar 2020 #23
Amazing likeness! George II Mar 2020 #27
Ouch!!! calimary Mar 2020 #29
They remind me of these... 2naSalit Mar 2020 #32
I always thought of trump's "presidency" as more like Animal Farm than 1984. Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #33
That's downright uncanny! lunatica Mar 2020 #34
this is a man who JUDGES THE APPEARANCES OF OTHERS Skittles Mar 2020 #37
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, misanthrope Mar 2020 #38
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