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# Technically
Both are correct. Depending on which style guide you use and where you are at in the world. :P

www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/58496-jesus-jesus-jesuss.html
(I helped save b3ta! Scoopzilla http://www.slapwatch.com now get to fuck, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 21:49, archived)
# yeah, I would have said that next,
but personally I'll always go for semantic rules over morphological ones, on the grounds that morphological rules are "false simplicity" and can result in loss of meaning. The Jesus' scheme results in loss of meaning as the possessive of a singular word that happens to end in 's' and the possessive of a plural that ends in 's' are indistinguishable, and although it seems to reduce the amount of thinking required to know how to write something (because you only have to think about the letters rather than the meaning of the words), it isn't actually simpler at all, and thinking about what you're saying is in any case desirable.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 22:04, archived)
# This negates what you said earlier
about the evolution of language...

also, my brain hurts now and I need a fizzy beverage of some sort. I has been bested.
(I helped save b3ta! Scoopzilla http://www.slapwatch.com now get to fuck, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 22:10, archived)
# It really doesn't.
Language evolution always tends to favour simplicity, but I only support it when it's true simplicity (which is dropping redundant grammatical complexity, for example noun inflections where word order will suffice), never when it's false simplicity (which is dropping non-redundant grammatical complexity, such as decision making based on letters as opposed to meanings).
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 22:19, archived)
# I think I might love you.
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 22:26, archived)
# I know, right?
I'd have her whisper Oxford's rules of diction in my ear as we made sweet sweet love on the back of a short shark bound for Tahiti...
(I helped save b3ta! Scoopzilla http://www.slapwatch.com now get to fuck, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 22:28, archived)
# get in the queue
i've just spent about an hour and a half talking about acoustic black holes and the dirac equation, a sure way to my heart.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 22:29, archived)
# *scrolls down*
*gives up*
(I helped save b3ta! Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 22:36, archived)
# haha
not many places where people *give up* after you've been talking about acoustic black holes, rather than pointing and laughing

edit: if it helps, i also posted a crudely drawn picture of a phase transition which i put in notes for some students here. then turned it into an animated crudely drawn phase transition cock spunking big gobs of spunk.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 22:38, archived)
# I'm suddenly popular.
I'm not quite sure what to make of this. I might have to go and have a lie down.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 22:32, archived)
# Happens to
the geekiest of us.

:D
(I helped save b3ta! Scoopzilla http://www.slapwatch.com now get to fuck, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 22:36, archived)
# it often helps
have a cup of tea, too.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 8 Dec 2009, 22:40, archived)