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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Shmuel,<br><br>In an earlier post on this topic I pointed out that in English we have adjectives of varying types, two of which are:<br><br>possessive adjectives<br>limiting adjectives<br><br>User manual is a example of the latter and limits the intended audience.<br>Another example of this is "butterfly migration" which limits the scope of those things migrating.<br><br>Non-native speakers often miss this distinction and say things like "butterflies migration".<br><br>My wife is a native Spanish speaker and she claims Spanish does not allow such limiting adjectives instead saying "the migration of the butterfly". (Note the singular butterfly, mimicking the singular user in English.)<br><br>Putting "butterfly migration" into google translate results in "<span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="es"><span class="hps">migración de la mariposa" in Spanish. (Not that that proves anything.)<br><br>Craig<br></span></span><div><div class="ecxWordSection1"><div>
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Shmuel [mailto:shmuelw1@gmail.com<span class="ecxGramE">] <br>
<b>Sent</b></span><b>:</b> Sunday, March 15, 2015 7:19 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Craig, Alison; hessiansx4; Framers<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: User's manual vs. User manual</span></p>
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<span style="">We use User’s Manual. User’s Manual is the manual for the User. How do explain the name User Manual? If it means the same thing, isn't it missing the "apostrophe s"?
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Shmuel Wolfson<br>
Technical Writer<br>
052-763-7133</span></p>
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