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In early elementary school, we were taught that an apostrophe is placed before an 's' to show singular possessive (the cat's meow or the baby's coo).
Why do people -- people under 35 usually -- put an apostrophe before 's' that indicates a plural? (The girl's got two coat's for Christmas or Those kitten's certainly are frisky when they play with ping-pong ball's). That is totally wrong!!!
LOL Wondergirl. Just like the rest of punctuation I suppose some people have a hard time with. I am very particular. I guess being a legal secretary for 10 years got me rather anal.
I have a hard time with people's (notice the correct punctuation there, lol) spelling.
Things like there when it should be they're just totally annoy me. Also I see a lot of chat speak. ur instead of your or you're. Why can't they just type the whole word?
I want to adopt all these people who don't use they're/their/there correctly and don't know the difference between it's and its and can't spell definitely and say all of the sudden instead of all of a sudden.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! (I was a teacher and have worked for years as a librarian.)
Well, sea, hears' the thing. PPl dont paye attenshun too what their tiping and they're pointe is ushually gotten accross anyways. Mayb we shud stop ansering ppl who cant use basick grammar and punctuashun. Or, mayb I am being to harsh an we shud all tipe like this. idk, whut do u 2 think?
/That took me far too long to type. I don't get why people don't use the handy lil' "spell check" button...
Funny and true story about not being able to spell: I knew a guy who had "Strapped" tattooed on his arm (you know, gangsta fabulous, strapped with a gun), only it actually said "Straped" HA! Even better - he'd had it for over a year and didn't know it was wrong! Double HA!
The importance of proper spelling and grammar.
I read an article about changes and improvements to the English language to make it easier to understand and get rid of the inconsistencies.
“EUROPE ACCEPTS ENGLISH AS MAIN LANGUAGE WITH FEW MODIFICATIONS”
“ The European Union commissioners have announced the agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement, and has accepted a five-year phase in plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish.
“In the first year ”s” will be used instead of the soft “c”. Sertainly, sivil servants will receive this news with joy. Also, the hard “c” will be replaced with “k”. Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.
“There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the second year, when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced by “f” This will make words like “fotograf” 20 percent shorter.
“In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will encourage the removal of double letters, which have always been a deterrent to akurate speling.
“Also, al wil agre that the horrible mes of the silent “e” in the language is disgrasful and it would go.
“ By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”. During ze fifz year, ze unesasary “o” kan be dropd from vords containing “ou” and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
“After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls of difikultis and evrifin vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
Ze drem vil finali kum tru! Ze Reich-ops- United Europ, vil last tausend yirs!
Yavol!
I'm's, not under aged's 35. I usually's just forgets' how to use the apostrophe and needs' to ask someone's else about the correct usage's of it. Thanks for the reminder, though.
I'm, also very anal, about the use, of the comma, as well, as the apostrophe. I know that, I use either of them, way too much!
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