Use (not abuse) of the apostrophe

Just a little grammatical education from The Oatmeal

Sadly, our media seems to be utterly and completely clueless about this.

-Kevin

Let's hope this helps.

Don't you mean to say, "Lets hope this helps"?

(and yes, I do know the correct answer).
s6

stealth6 said:

Don't you mean to say, "Lets hope this helps"?

(and yes, I do know the correct answer).
s6

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Then you know about the Honeymoon Salad, lettuce alone.

stealth6 said:

Don't you mean to say, "Lets hope this helps"?

(and yes, I do know the correct answer).
s6

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It's a contraction of, "Lettuce hopes it helps."

There should be an Apostrophe Abuse Trophy.

It's my apostrophe, I'll use it the way I want to...

Fred, how did you hijack Troj's account?

KennB said:

Then you know about the Honeymoon Salad, lettuce alone.

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Dang! You beat me with the lettuce while I was typing!

T-Rex said:

It's my apostrophe, I'll use it the way I want to...

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Im savin mine to use at Apostrophest.

Bat-mite said:

Fred, how did you hijack Troj's account?

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Ouch....

Thank's yous! I's really's i's appreciating's thi's!!

Modern English doesn't have room for apostrophes. :

https://www.sherwinarnott.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/psm_poster_abbreviations_11x17.pdf

I love the smell of burning apostrophes in the morning.....

troj said:

Ouch....

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You know I was joking (I hope).

Apostrophe??

Wasn’t he one of those evil Goa’uld’s from “Stargate SG1”?

troj said:

Ouch....

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[video=youtube;k3YfVndhUa4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3YfVndhUa4[/video]

As my son is so fond of saying about apostrophes, "look out! Here comes an S!"

Well the great thing about English as a language ( even the version you colonials use ) is its flexibility and adaptability.

That's why it's survived. It can take in words from other cultures and languages, adapt, change, describe almost anything.

Languages which become too rigid in their structure and grammar tend to die out.....Latin for instance. Rigid sets of rules make the language inflexible.

I know people get grammer errors but we can at least all understand what they are on about, Latin errors are a lot tougher to sort out and that didn't help the Romans keep the empire running smoothly. Well that and the lack of a zero in their numbering system which makes life very hard for admin people. Once the admin are confused in any situation be it the loval grocery store or an empire then the end is nigh

Astro-Baby said:

Well the great thing about English as a language ( even the version you colonials use ) is its flexibility and adaptability.

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. Once the admin are confused in any situation be it the loval grocery store or an empire then the end is nigh

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That completely explains why Vons, the grocery empire, has survived-no apostrophe and they use zeros! Thanks Mel!

"The crux of the biscuit... Is the apostrophe."

Frank Zappa

ThirstyBarbarian said:

Im savin mine to use at Apostrophest.

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The waiver is not high enough

I am going Contractionaire

This year's events include a full day of semi-colons!


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H_Rocket said:

The waiver is not high enough

I am going Contractionaire

This year's events include a full day of semi-colons!


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There's a joke in there somewhere about colostomy bags, but's it not very 'funny'. See how I worked the apostrophes in that?

boomtube said:

Apostrophe??

Wasn’t he one of those evil Goa’uld’s from “Stargate SG1”?

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Heh , I am up to season 6 now.

Kenny

stealth6 said:

Don't you mean to say, "Lets hope this helps"?

(and yes, I do know the correct answer).
s6

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ahem!
"Lets hope this help's"
Σ=-)