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FAREWELL TO THE APOSTROPHE
The apostrophe may die out because of sloppy grammar on social media, British researchers suggest. Researchers from Lancaster University say online platforms such as Twitter, which limit the numbers of characters per post, mean users are getting into the habit of dropping punctuation. Casualties include the possessive apostrophe in plural nouns - such as cats' paws --- or those which replace a letter, such as in couldn’t for could not. Researchers looked at 100 million words and found casual and ungrammatical language had become more prevalent in the past 30 years! THE WEST AUSTRALIAN. ![]() |
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There should be a general “rant thread” for grammar, syntax, spelling. Possibly including posts railing against Americanisation of Australian language.
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Who cares about that little squiggle thingy.
Does it really change anything? What we should be ranting about is the inability of people to use the possessive case of a pronoun preceding the gerund. Youse bloody peasants. |
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The apostrophe died out a long time ago In Australia on road signs when they decided to remove them.
A classic example of the confusion it causes is the Princes Highway which runs from Sydney to Adelaide along national route 1. Note "Princes' only has one s, not two. Therefore, it is the Highway that belongs to the Prince, not a Highway that relates to the Princess. From wikipedia: Quote:
But, when all the signage forgoes the apostrophe, it is no wonder people get confused. According to this site, the decision to remove apostrophes in signs was made way back in 1966. Quote:
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Apostrophe? Isnt that some Greek God or Goddess or sumfink?
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I still refuse to shorten text messages on my Mobile.
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Lol, BTW, I'll BBS, c u then, gotta chq in on my FB c if any1 has LMS.
LMAO at sum of the vids. BB4now
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Goodbye to the apostrophe! didnt he die at the hands of some greek dude
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Jesus Christ and the 12 apostrophes.
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Doesnt matter, nobody know's how to use them anyway.
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If one abandons all deference to the “vitamins” of our verbage - why stop there? Next casualty will be left justification.
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I see what you did there
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sorry to break here but this is good, all fun banter and no putdowns or sh*t stirrers
let us keep progressing this thread to a wonderful never ending thread full of happynios
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Iagree
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To all the grammar police - there, their, they’re!
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Here, here!
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Thankyou, I was mistaken, "here, hear!"
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