Talk:anybody's

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I thought we had decided not to include words with -'s unless they had some nonobvious meaning (like New Year's). —Angr 20:50, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

But weren’t pronouns an exception? If not, delete. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 21:08, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

someone's passed RFD in the past. Equinox ◑ 21:16, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

But that was 5½ years ago and consensus can change; also, at least one vote in that very small discussion was predicated on the incorrect assumption that "someone's" in the meaning "someone is" or "someone has" is nonstandard. I would be opposed to keeping the possessive forms of pronouns that are simply {PRONOUN}+(deprecated template usage) 's, as they are no different from the possessive forms of nouns that are simply {NOUN}+(deprecated template usage) 's. I realize that to be consistent that would mean deleting one of my favorite words, (deprecated template usage) y'all's, though. —Angr 21:36, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't think that pronouns are, or should be anyway, an exception to the no-English-possessives-ending-in-'s prohibition. Today I deleted four noun entries/L2 sections relying on the rule. I would be chagrined to find we no longer had consensus on that. DCDuring TALK 21:42, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Now I remember. The exception is one’s, not all pronouns. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 21:48, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

I think we definitely need y'all's because it is technically not even grammatically correct. To me, if I was referring to a group of people as "you all", the possessive would be "all your" or even "your all" and so y'all's is necessary to demonstrate that that is not the case with the contraction. We should probably also have your guys', your guys's, and you guys's for the possible possessives of you guys. I would also say we need one's but I can't come up with a solid argument for it. The others I think we can do without. --WikiTiki89 21:57, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

The possessive form is worth keeping should be kept, at least as a translation target. The current rule (if it exists) not to include possessive forms with 's should not apply to pronouns, such as one's, nobody's, somebody's, anybody's and should be treated as words, like whose, theirs and hers. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 00:34, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

We have talked about making all pronouns exceptions. That's my position. Keep. DAVilla 05:26, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Kept. bd2412 T 03:11, 6 December 2013 (UTC)