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Lets ban apostrophes, please. No one uses them correctly and we dont really need them anyhow.
This is really someone elses idea, but I think its a solid one. I mean really, was there any part of this post that you couldnt understand because of the stupid apostrophes that werent included? Can you think of a single example where it matters?
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Space Nazi
Apostrophes Are Stupid and
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WTFabout 7 months ago×
I am thirteen years old. I find apostrophes easy and have never had any trouble using them in the correct places. You are clearly wrong, as everyone who has replied to this post is adamant that apostrophes are essential. 'We'll' becomes 'well', 'he'll' becomes 'hell' and 'I went to Chris' house' becomes 'I went to Chris house'.
This is stupid. I don't know why I'm even wasting my time replying to it; apostrophes are obviously needed and anyone who thinks otherwise is incompetant.
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What's so hard about them? This sounds like someone who misspells a word complaining about how the word is spelled, and not their inability to spell it.
Have you any friends named Chris? Good luck writing about anything of theirs… “I went to Chris' house” becomes “I went to Chris house.”And please please don't say that this will just be an exception. English already has too many of those.
Close, Jack! I think one rule is that the example sentence cant be a fragment in one or more of its forms. I like Veronica's example though. Maybe just get rid of apostrophes for possessives? That seems totally reasonable.
How sad. Your call to dimasntle apostrophes has brought out the hard right. Personally, I probably don't use them correctly, but then, I don't always drive the speed limit either…and (gasp!) I even mispell sometimes. (S-O-M-E-T-I-M-E-S)….
No…I mean I 'mispell', sometimes.
Oh well….it ain't the worse thing about me.
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Here is one example I can think of. Try and do that another way that is valid in JavaScript and produces “Dave's Code”.document.write('What if I need to quote something like “Dave\'s Code” and need more than 1 escape sequence?');
Joy Engel
Apostrophes Are Stupid and
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Trashy, WTF & Ewabout 7 months ago×
letsbaneverythingbutathroughzbecauseyoudontneedanythingbutlettersyouunderstandthisrightI like the apostrophe. Its improper use lets me instantly dismiss a writer as a moron.
It's easy to pin something like this on “the evolution of language,” but the fact is that, in this case, it's simple laziness. SMS was born in text messages, and that's where it should stay.The real problem is that most of the people who are punctuationally challenged also can't spell for shit. As a result, it can be very difficult to decipher the meaning behind what has been written.
Eric Buth
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WTFabout 7 months ago×
“That's my girlfriends' (girlfriend's) box of tampons.” The apostrophe lets you know if there's one girlfriend or more than one. Why do young people have so much trouble with apostrophes? They're not that hard. A little flick of the right pinky and you boost your perceived IQ by 20 points. This post makes you sound like the people of the future in Idiocracy.
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