(caution: grammatical pedantry, and ridiculously low-stakes musings. possibly the most mundane and unexciting critique of EA org ever)
The name of Founders Pledge should actually be Founders’ Pledge, right? It is possessive, and the pledge belongs to multiple founders. If I remember my childhood lessons, apostrophes come after the s for plural things:
the cow’s friend (this one cow has a friend)
the birds’ savior (all of these birds have a savior)
A new thought: maybe I’ve been understanding it wrong. I’ve always thought of the “pledge” in Founders Pledge as a noun, but maybe it is actually an verb? In that sense, Founders Pledge would be like Germans Give or Gamblers Donate. I think it sounds a little funny to use pledge as an intransitive verb (without anything coming after it), but I guess it works in the same way that “I eat” sounds a little odd but is grammatically correct, and I suppose Californians Eat sounds fine.
EDIT: It looks like there have been some disagree votes. I find this particularly curious, as this is musings rather than claims/arguments.
I assumed it was functioning as a compound noun rather than a possessive. The word ‘Founders’ is modifying the type of Pledge, not claiming ownership of it.
(caution: grammatical pedantry, and ridiculously low-stakes musings. possibly the most mundane and unexciting critique of EA org ever)
The name of Founders Pledge should actually be Founders’ Pledge, right? It is possessive, and the pledge belongs to multiple founders. If I remember my childhood lessons, apostrophes come after the s for plural things:
the cow’s friend (this one cow has a friend)
the birds’ savior (all of these birds have a savior)
A new thought: maybe I’ve been understanding it wrong. I’ve always thought of the “pledge” in Founders Pledge as a noun, but maybe it is actually an verb? In that sense, Founders Pledge would be like Germans Give or Gamblers Donate. I think it sounds a little funny to use pledge as an intransitive verb (without anything coming after it), but I guess it works in the same way that “I eat” sounds a little odd but is grammatically correct, and I suppose Californians Eat sounds fine.
EDIT: It looks like there have been some disagree votes. I find this particularly curious, as this is musings rather than claims/arguments.
I assumed it was functioning as a compound noun rather than a possessive. The word ‘Founders’ is modifying the type of Pledge, not claiming ownership of it.