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Riglos wrote:1. How can we distinguish between a descriptive genitive and a compound noun? The descriptive Genative will be an inflected Genative using the apostrophe, just like the possessive. This appears to be an argument of semantics; the foundation of which rests in whether...

As a native speaker, I would not be troubled by "the server's name" and similar phrases. In fact, I had never heard of the rule that the Saxon genitive (the 's form) was only to be used with animate subjects until I started reading this board; nor had I ever heard it called the "Saxon genitive."...