Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/03/now-do-foot-marks.html
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Literacy is for the bird’s.
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fewer organisation’s and individual’s are now caring about the correct use of the apostrophe in the English Language
This is the most sour grapes passage I have seen in a long time.
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The best use of a missing possessive apostrophe that I’ve seen so far: https://proctorscollaborative.org/2018/07/10/how-did-apostrophe-cafe-get-its-name/
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Sounds more like ’ has taken off as an invasive species and no longer needs protection?
Fly my prettie’s! May you proliferate and pro’sper!!!
(Also, wo’ about the glo’ol stop apostrophe?)
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Welcome to our reality!
(Our reality being those of us formerly defending the proper usage of “begs the question”)
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Small business sign’s can breathe easier.
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My favorite example of “the apostrophe makes all the difference” is
Those old things in the attic are my husband’s
vs.
Those old things in the attic are my husbands
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But what is a postrophe? That is some serious keming in the handwriting.
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There is a special place in hell for people who use an apostrophe alone, without the s, to denote possession with singular proper nouns that just happen to end with an s themselves.
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I will admit that I was very amused when reading an account from WWI that included the word 'bus. Because even 100 years ago, it was old fashioned to acknowledge that 'bus was a contraction of omnibus.
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So you would say “Euripides’s plays” (yu-rip-a-deezez) instead of “Euripides’ plays”?
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the people who run the various charity-based thrift stores in my area will be thrilled. that being said, i will continue to brandish my sharpie when necessary.
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The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.
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I merely asked for a dative and you sent me your genitives.
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FTFY
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No, YOUR a peedez!
/s
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So, if I understand correctly, they’ve basically conceded that the grocer’s apostrophe has won?
Then this is, indeed, a sad, dark day.
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My fav:
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As the son of an English professor known for covertly painting out apostrophes on signs at night, I will keep up the fight.
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