Double possessive wallace

Xinfu · #1 July 04, 2015, 04:24 AM

-Wallace's voice is that of a hip polymath's, [...]

1. What's a hip polymath?

2. Why that and 's used together?

**Rusty** · #2 July 04, 2015, 07:12 AM

Here, 'that' is a relative pronoun. Its antecedent is 'voice'. It serves to make the connection between Wallace's voice and the voice of the polymath (a person of great and varied learning). 'Hip' is slang for 'informed about the latest ideas/developments'.

Xinfu · #3 July 06, 2015, 03:59 AM

Thank you. But in that case do you think 's is redundant? as that already has that meaning.

**Rusty** · #4 July 06, 2015, 05:20 AM

Yes, the genitive ending isn't needed.

Xinfu · #5 July 08, 2015, 02:05 PM

Thank you.

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