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• Space Nazi   Apostrophes Are Stupid and thinks it’s WTF about 4 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.
  Thank you.. :) :$

  

  Eddy Smith
  4 months ago
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• Nike J.   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×

• William Faulkner liked to drop apostrophes from words like “cant” and “dont”.

  

  Lazar Taxon
  4 months ago
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• Amanda Little   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×
• Leah Jones   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×
• delicious kiwis   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×
• keek marie   Apostrophes Are Stupid and thinks it’s WTF about 4 months ago ×
• Jeff Nielsen   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×
• plaid lemur   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×

• lets ban you instead.

  

  rickyd
  4 months ago
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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.

  

  plaid lemur
  4 months ago
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• fred triner   Apostrophes Are Stupid and thinks it’s Trashy & WTF about 4 months ago ×

• apostrophes have tons of uses and we DO need them, and it is not the punctuation mark's (see!) fault that people are too dumb to use 'em correctly!!

  

  fred triner
  4 months ago
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• Bryant T.   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×
• Kelly B. thinks Apostrophes Are Stupid is Ew about 4 months ago ×

• You dno't eevn hvae to wtrie the lteetrs of wodrs in the rihgt oredr as lnog as the fisrt and the lsat lteetr is at the rgiht plcae.

  

  Anthon
  4 months ago
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• Or would it be “I went to Chris's house” becomes “I went to Chriss house”? This is one area where my apostrophe knowledge fails.

  

  joe m/ɯ ǝoɾ
  4 months ago
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• 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.

  

  joe m/ɯ ǝoɾ
  4 months ago
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• Cherie R. thinks Apostrophes Are Stupid is WTF about 4 months ago ×
• Mitspooner   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×
• Kevin L.   Apostrophes Are Stupid and thinks it’s Ew, Trashy & WTF about 4 months ago ×
• Herman Hedning   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×
• Jim Waller thinks Apostrophes Are Stupid is WTF about 4 months ago ×
• Dustin A Coates   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×

• 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.

  

  Scott Lamb
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• Jeff   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×

• 

  Apostrophes are a matter of life and death!!!!!!!
  More importantly, what the hell made me think of rabbits?

  

  Jack Shepherd ☠
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• 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.
  OBAMA/POWELL 2012

  

  berry connell
  4 months ago
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• shikaaboom   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×
• Skeemer thinks Apostrophes Are Stupid is Geeky about 4 months ago ×
• Ian Hancock   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×

• I've read enough text messages to know that what you propose is a horrible idea, Scott.

  

  joe m/ɯ ǝoɾ
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• Kate Zuparko   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×
• Joe Pepper   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×

• Buzzfeed should have a “stupid” tag…

  

  Denis R.
  4 months ago
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• Denis R.   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×
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• Sean Maloney   Apostrophes Are Stupid about 4 months ago ×

• 

  Good lord….. someone didn't think this one through.

  

  taylov
  4 months ago
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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?');

  

  Dave Friedel, Easily Impressed Lunatic
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• Joy Engel   Apostrophes Are Stupid and thinks it’s Trashy, WTF & Ew about 4 months ago ×

• letsbaneverythingbutathroughzbecauseyoudontneedanythingbutlettersyouunderstandthisright I like the apostrophe. Its improper use lets me instantly dismiss a writer as a moron.

  

  Patrick A
  4 months ago
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• It's helpful when writing “we'll” so you don't get “well”

  

  The Internet's Very Own Veronica Belmont
  100 4 months ago
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• 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.

  

  Jamee S.
  4 months ago
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• Eric Buth thinks Apostrophes Are Stupid is WTF about 4 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.

  

  Dave Stratton
  4 months ago
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• idk wat da big deel iz. evry1 knowz wats up. i thought i voted changezzzz.
  lolz.

  

  GreenTea
  4 months ago
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