Forums | MacLife

:points to the Games room:

oatmeal wrote:

Damn you.  Damn you for making me think about this.  It would never have occurred to me. http://homepage.mac.com/oatmeal/MAF/maxes/explode.gif

( )

Xboxes 360 is more correct.  Xbox 360s will be common use, you just know it.

No. If you have several copies of Tekken 4 you don't have Tekkens 4. If you have a Weedwhacker 48, plural becomes Weedwhacker 48s not Weedwhackers 48.

360 is part of the name.

You wouldn't call them "colors pencil" or "PowerBooks G4," would you?

ha ! take that smart man !

benightedbastard wrote:

Macskeeball wrote:

360 is part of the name.

You wouldn't call them "colors pencil" or "PowerBooks G4," would you?

Governors general
courts martial
daughters-in-law
armsful

So maybe I was right.  Darn you people, making me doubt myself! 

benightedbastard wrote:

Macskeeball wrote:

360 is part of the name.

You wouldn't call them "colors pencil" or "PowerBooks G4," would you?

Governors general
courts martial
daughters-in-law
armsful

Toyotas Camry?
iPods nano?
Holys Bible?
Canons PowerShot?
Goldens Graham?

Your examples are more general identifiers. "XBox 360" is collectively a proper noun. Simply compare "XBox 360" to another name of a very similar form. Would you say, "PowerMacs G5?"

Last edited by Macskeeball (2005-11-22 11:10 pm)

White Microsoft Box

iBubba wrote:

:points to the Games room:

Eh, they'll just go off topic or start talking about Nintendos or something.

That usually what takes place over there.

fastman wrote:

I think it has to do with which object is being added to.  For example, colored pencil, the pencil is being added upon, so we say, "Colored pencils."  But in Xbox 360, we are adding another Xbox, so we say, "Xboxes 360."  360 is an adjective in this instance, I think.

God, I am a nerd.

Ya, but the full product names is "Xbox 360"

For example, let's pretend you have a lame generic name like Jim Smith. If you were standing next to someone else with the exact same name we'd refer to you two as "the Jims," "the Jim Smiths," or "the Smiths." 

But we'd never refer to the two of you as "the Jims Smith"

Last edited by AAPL Shareholder (2005-11-22 11:36 pm)

Moses wrote:

I am more worried about Nintendo Revolutions.

I guess this...

AAPL Shareholder wrote:

iBubba wrote:

:points to the Games room:

Eh, they'll just go off topic or start talking about Nintendos or something.

That usually what takes place over there.

...can happen here too

Moses wrote:

I am more worried about Nintendo Revolutions.

(Continuing my winning streak...)

Nintendos Revolutionses.

It's simple when you think about it. The "s" or what have you goes at the end of a given name when converting the singular into the plural. "Best" is not the name. "Best Buy" is the name. Put the "s" at the end of the name.