A new piece on the Haida for the Joseph Campbell Foundation.
On the Haida
by allison stieger | Dec 3, 2013 | Uncategorized | 3 comments
A new piece on the Haida for the Joseph Campbell Foundation.
Last week I had the privilege of presenting a paper at the annual Popular Culture Association national conference, held here in Seattle. My paper, which had the same title as this blog post, was on a phenomenon I've been noticing around celebrities for the...
This blog has been intentionally quiet for the past few months, as I work on finishing my novel and my book on myth and creativity. However, I had a little adventure last week, and I'd like to share it with all of you. As I'm sure many of you know, behemoth internet...
In our family we talk a great deal about both science and myth, which reflects the interests of my husband and myself. Our children, two boys ages 8 and 6, have thankfully developed a deep curiosity about both subjects, which keeps things lively in our home, to say...
Discovering Allison Stieger’s writings and enthusiastic sharing of myth is a pleasure for me, a retired longtime college prof of myth, a person steeped and steeping forever in its currents and undertows. But i have a petty complaint. To squawk on … The Trickster (surely NOT in the guise of Raven, though!) has been up to no good in the grammatical world lately, and has tweaked my professorial wrinkles just now re admirable Allison Stieger’s mis-usage. Drat, even she has fallen prey to using “it’s” as a possessive when, to be painfully pedantic, it isn’t.
The possessive of the PRONOUN ‘it’ is ITS, just as the possessive of the pronouns ‘He/Him’ is HIS — no apostrophe in possessive pronouns (yet)! So “it’s” with an apostrophe always stands for ‘it is’. Yup, the apostrophe represents the missing letter ‘i’ in proper usage. Prob’ly, as with other creeping common errors, the mistake will eventually become proper too. It still rots this ol’ lady’s socks, however. Maybe the Trickster should be toe-tugged for this misleading of otherwise educated folk?!
Just sayin’, its a shame that it’s now such a common slip-up in high places to write IT’S for ITS.
Unfortunately, this error did make it through both my own editing process and past the good folks at the Campbell Foundation. Abject apologies!
Damn those typos – just as well I’m not the grammatical nazi my friend is – still, interesting article and as someone trying to edit and finish a novel using Raven (albeit related more to Tlingit rather than Haida) as a modern Hero myth (ok if that is true if it’s based in the 1960s) – I appreciate your story Allison