i'll admit, i'm something of a grammar nerd. My mom spent a large amount of my youth correcting my grammar and syntax. A lot of it stuck, and learning spanish cemented more, especially along the lines of grammar.
One of my all time pet peeves is the misuse and current abuse of the apostrophe. This poor thing, once used only to designate contractions or show possession, now apparently is just for any old reason you'd like, mostly for pluralizing abbreviations. This bothers me in day to day misuse, but I swear, if I see it one more time on a professional sign, or in a commercial, I don't know what I'll do! I was watching tv last night, and there was a commercial for a local sports shop that seemed very proud to state on a rolling display across the screen "the pro's shop here!" What about the pro's shop? why was it here?
Ugh. Pretty soon, apostrophe's won't mean anything, and we'll all start u'sing them in front of all s's, since that seem's to be the current trend.
Could we plea'se remember that there's a time and place for everything, e'specially apo'strophe's?? It's getting to be so bad, that I have caught myself apostrophizing (sure it's a real word!) things incorrectly. I'm quite ashamed of it, but I'm pretty sure it's a cry for help...
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Is there a reason you sometimes capitalize and sometimes don't (specifically the letter "i")?
wha't are you talkin'g about's? I dont think people's misuse it at al'l
~mrswhale'n
I wrote a blog about this too. It was after I saw some signs on the way to church. They said something like, "All DVD's 1/2 off" and the next window had something similar. They alternated the two signs all the way down the front of the store. It made me wonder whether anyone proofreads the signs before making them.
Since I've been looking for a job, I've seen a lot of this same thing in the job ads, "We need good worker's now," "Must have good typing skill's," Send resume's in now," job requires good attention to detail's." I don't apply for these jobs.
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