Because we're ON VACATION, we're watching far more TV than I normally allow

[conuly]

Two or three episodes a day. Well, it won't kill them, and everybody in the house BUT them and me sleeps in, so they need to be contained.

In the past, I've watched Dora. God is that an obnoxious show. If you have to cajole children into participating, you're doing it wrong. It's insulting to everybody to be asked an already insultingly simple question, and then be nagged into giving the reply, or have to sit through several seconds of silence before the answer is given.

But you know what really annoys me about this show? What really, really annoys me?

Nobody on that show seems to understand that the possessive of Boots is not Boots, but Boots'. Maybe it's just me, but if I were refering to Boots' boots, or his books, or his birthday, I'd say "Boots-iz such-and-fuch" not merely "Boots such-and-fuch".

Drives me batty.

Comments

[l33tminion]

I disagree. I don't think apostrophe on it's own should be pronounced "iz". For one thing, when does punctuation on it's own have voiced pronunciation? For another, "my parents-iz car" or "the midwest states-iz cities" sounds wrong compared to "my parents' car" or "the midwest states' cities" (with the apostrophe unvoiced).

(IMO, adding "iz" to the end of plural words ending in "s" should be reserved for its proper grammatically function of indicating that the speaker is Gollum.)

Edit: Changed the second example to actually make sense.

[conuly]

Except Boots, as a proper name, is not a plural noun anymore, unless there happens to be more than one of that annoying character.

Besides, it's not punctuation until you learn to read. Prior to that, it's just speech.

[l33tminion]

Ah, indeed. You're quite correct, I'm getting confused.

[conuly]

Yeah, I think we both got caught up on the orthography. I have no idea how the writers of Dora spell Boots + possessive, I just know how they expect the characters to say it, and it drives me up the wall.