Morbid Mind
The humble possessive apostrophe. Such a small mark of punctuation, yet the cause of so many misunderstandings, especially for non-native speakers of English, like our friends Evil's Toy here. As you might notice, I've taken the liberty of inserting an apostrophe into the band's name, even though it doesn't seem to appear on any of their album artwork. (They do use it, however, in both the English and German versions of the biography section of their Web site.)A similar phenomenon occurs with another German band, Die Verbannten Kinder Evas. Shouldn't it be "Eva's"? It was written that way on their first album, but not on the subsequent three. I omitted the possessive apostrophe in this blog because they do, but perhaps I should have silently corrected it.
These are the kinds of things I think about on a Monday, when what I really should be doing is writing even more boring material for the World's Dullest Software Company.
Also today:
53:51 Matt Howden, Voyager
53:48 Die Form, Photogrammes
53:48 Infekktion, New Virus
53:47 Pail, Epidemic
53:46 In Slaughter Natives, Purgate My Stain
53:45 Current 93, Soft Black Stars
53:43 Tamtrum & Lok-8, Versus
53:42 Penitent, Deserted Dreams
53:41 Corvus Corax, Mille Anni Passi Sunt
53:41 Dryft, Cell
53:40 C/A/T, The Rogue Pair
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