Re: [OT] Grammatic gender

[Simon Albrecht]

On 16.11.2017 17:37, Werner Arnhold wrote:
> For example: the English
> language knows the saxon genitiv form e.g. "Garner's" (see below). In
> German it always was absolutely wrong to use a quote for that reason.
> When after the german reunion a big part of the people raised with
> Russion as first foreign language, they often used that form, e.g.
> "Lisa's Wolllädchen". Some time ago that way of writing was declared
> legal.

Interesting. That’s an explanation I’ve never heard before, but I do 
know that using an apostrophe with the genitive of names was perfectly 
normal in German in the 19th century (and I would be in favor of 
reintroducing it… :-) )

Best, Simon