My exact thought right when seeing this! Pretty much no one I’ve met IRL has even heard of this movie. Lemmy is kindred spirits I guess.
BTW the movie is actually called “Jesus’ son” which I believe is grammatically incorrect and that’s always kind of bothered me. I feel like someone would have pointed that out and that it must be intentional but I can’t see the significance of doing something like that.
For names that end in an s or z sound, though, you can either add -'s or just an apostrophe. Going with -'s is the more common choice
Ok, so it’s kinda optional in most cases, but reading on:
For classical and biblical names there are other rules. For names ending in s or es and having two or more syllables, you usually just add an apostrophe. If the name is only one syllable, add -'s.
Socrates’ students
Ramses’ kingdom
Amos’ prophecy
Zeus’s warnings
The names Jesus and Moses are always made possessive with the apostrophe alone:
Jesus’ disciples
Moses’ law
So pretty obscure stuff, but the bottom line is that the title is the only correct way to write it according to M-W at least.
BTW the movie is actually called “Jesus’ son” which I believe is grammatically incorrect and that’s always kind of bothered me. I feel like someone would have pointed that out and that it must be intentional but I can’t see the significance of doing something like that.
I actually knew this when I was writing the comment. My brain rebelled when I tried to write it correctly.
On a tangential note. Jack Black was great as a strung out nurse in Jesus’s Son.
“Patient complains of knife in brain.” “Stabbing headache?”
My exact thought right when seeing this! Pretty much no one I’ve met IRL has even heard of this movie. Lemmy is kindred spirits I guess.
BTW the movie is actually called “Jesus’ son” which I believe is grammatically incorrect and that’s always kind of bothered me. I feel like someone would have pointed that out and that it must be intentional but I can’t see the significance of doing something like that.
Why would that be grammatically incorrect? I was always taught that if the name ends with an “s” you omit the “s” after the apostrophe.
I looked it up, and it’s not quite that simple.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/what-happens-to-names-when-we-make-them-plural-or-possessive
Ok, so it’s kinda optional in most cases, but reading on:
So pretty obscure stuff, but the bottom line is that the title is the only correct way to write it according to M-W at least.
I actually knew this when I was writing the comment. My brain rebelled when I tried to write it correctly.
per Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, it’s only grammatical for Jesus (yes, that Jesus. not the other ones) because we make exceptions for Jesus or something
I thought the whole point was he was supposed to be one of us! At least follow our grammar then!
what if god was one of us? and he went into religion because he was a really shitty carpenter?
The book is something.