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Re:Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich by arthurfm on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:20AM (#17529381)
Shouldn't Norway's be Norwegian [millennials] in the title?

I have never heard of a Norwegian referred to as a 'Norway'.

To me, the title reads as: "Unlike most millennials, the Norway countries are rich" which doesn't make any sense because millennials are people not countries.

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Re:Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich by Thiez on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:23AM (#17529390)
It's referring to them as 'the millennials of Norway', short: 'Norway's millennials'. You are correct that those millennials would be Norwegians.
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Re:Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich by hocuspocus on Saturday July 14, 2018 @09:08AM (#17530193)
Not all of them. About 17% of the population aren't citizens, and probably more so within the millennials.
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Re:Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich by Nullabillity on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:22AM (#17529387)
I read it as "Norway's [millenials]", which seems fine grammatically.
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Re:Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich by wavefunction on Saturday July 14, 2018 @05:26AM (#17529557)
"Norway's" is the possessive referring by implication to millennials which is the preceding subject in the sentence.

>Unlike most millenials, Norway's (millenials) are rich.

You seem to be making the common conflation of the possessive with the plural of Norway (and of course there's only one Norway).

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Re:Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich by nottorp on Saturday July 14, 2018 @08:58AM (#17530157)
Apostrophe and s means possesive. no apostrophe and s means plural.

If you're confusing them you must be a native speaker of English ;)

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Re:Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich by vecinu on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:21AM (#17529386)
I believe the submitter was going for "Norway's Millennials" which I believe still sounds okay.
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Re:Unlike most millennials, Norway's are rich by Sathu on Saturday July 14, 2018 @05:26AM (#17529553)
Norwegians, in this case, feels more right, as it is referring to the people.
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