Totally awesome! I hate it when I see "'s"s used incorrectly. Too many freaking people can't even speak their own language right. I know a teacher that continually signs her cards "The Taylor's"... and she's a reading coach! Definately my pet peeeve.

Thats' a great headline; submitter!

phyzguy: Too many freaking people can't even speak their own language right.

You can hear apostrophes?

Definately

Definitely.

corgic: My pet peeve is the way people spell y'all.

My pet peeve is the word "y'all", period.

(BTW, a lot of people type "ya'll" for the same reason they type "teh" -- it's a typo.)

cue Bob the Angry Flower.....

I hate the apostrophe. Lets get rid of it.

I love these kind's of threads, cause peoples' now will come on here and try to be all grammar righteous and pay extra close attention to their own posts before posting. HAHA.

/drunk

I'd rather switch to the Spanish version- no apostrophe, my friend's house is said as the house of my friend- than deal with the constant misuse of what we have. Since when is it acceptable to put apostrophes wherever the hell you want?

AGSTJWB: Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

bounty: Some of people don't have to pay extra close attention to their posts to not make mistakes.

I call those people "not complete farking idiots."

I hate it when SF writers flog it (the apostrophe, that is) when they create names for aliens and alien races. "K'vokk wrestled with the savage P'gor'n, knowing that the fate of the Chio'var'a lay in his hands..." Weak!

/on the other hand, it IS the crux of the biscuit.

I hate the way there's always one drunk guy in every thread who has to post the fact that he's drunk even though no one cares.

RaoulDuke



/not a grammar, spelling, or apostrophe nazi

KrispyKringle
Yeah some of people don't. Damn Them's.

ArcadianRefugee: My pet peeve is the word "y'all", period.

I actually like "y'all", at least as the only thing we have in English that works for saying "you group of people". Most other languages have it, but we don't. As such, I think y'all, or some other similar word, should simply become an accepted standard in English.

I think that misused apostrophes are annoying, but my pet peeve is when people use quotation marks when they "really" want to emphasize something "a lot."

This thread is just going to be filled to the brim with farker's who disagree with it's premise, I know. The apostrophe is a terribly undervalued member of our linguistic order in this day age, and its really sad to see that some refuse to grasp it's proper usage.

nytmare
Yeah those people need to get a gd life. WOW YOU ARE SO COOL CAUSE YOU ARE DRUNK BOUNTY GET THE F OVER IT.

/drunk

Ahh, lucky Briton. She would put a bullet in her head if she lived in America. With Florida. Teenage Floridians.

Or E-mail. Period.

Pretty sad when the Immigrants can spell better than some of the natives.

Regrettably, Catherine, like so many people today, has the habit, of, over, using, commas.
Luke, Edinburgh

That's the problem.
Equivalence rules. Find ONE flaw in the criticizer's own writing and you can freely discard ALL criticism of yourself.

Then your free two be lose with you're own writting!

bounty: I guess this would be a bad time for me to point out the irony of that mistake.

I had originally written "some of us," but changed it because I thought that was far too much hubris.

From the quote box in the article:-

" I am one of those lonely souls who insist on proper sentence structure even in a text message "

WHERE'S THE DAMN QUESTION MARK ?

that 'sup' cat has me dying every time I see it, for absolutely no reason at all. Keep up the good work

//i's a gramer nazzi.

Here's (link) Spinnwebe's collection of busted apostrophes, mostly in advertisements.

^ The winna...

Damn!!!! shouldn't have been working while farking, too many damned posts in 5 minutes :P

Ohhhhhhh,

If you want it to be possessive,
It's just "I-T-S."
But, if it's supposed to be a contraction
Then it's "I-T-apostrophe-S,"
Scalawag.

full-time mother Catherine Poole, from Dunfermline,

They speak English in Scotland?
Who knew?

Thread jack:
Subway's footlongs for 2.99 on Tuesdays is a damn good deal imo.

No I made a mistake. I'm just dyslyxszxiyc. It dyidn't niieeuyd aaneeeyi quiseetshowyn marykykk.

\I am
\\Am I
\\\M.I.A.

ianderthal and ArcadianRefugee

I have to agree with ianderthal, "y'all" is quite a useful made-up word where none other so succinct can take it's place.

Hehe, "it is" place.

OK, you don't all have to post the exact farking same cartoon, got it? One person is enough!

Thank you!

/geeze

Alexis, was that you? :)

I would hope this is not the case, but sadly, this is only one of many occurrences of poor usage of grammar I see on a daily basis these days, in particular, the abuse of the apostrophe.

UMMM...run on sentence?
Lemme add a semi-colon...

I would hope this is not the case, but sadly, this is only one of many occurrences of poor usage of grammar I see on a daily basis these days; in particular, the abuse of the apostrophe.

THERE... ^_^

Learn grammar looser's.

Wow's this's gonna be fun threadz.

*scratches chin*

It occurs to me that if English teachers taught English rather than patently political curricula and encouraged correct spelling and grammar rather than magniloquent but hopelessly vacuous analyses of irrelevant anachronisms, such trivial problems would not arise.

/has no farking idea when it comes to the proper construction of the written language

A_Giant_Stone_John_Wilkes_Booth

lol that one is pro

The one that gets me the most is misuse of the third person plural pronoun as if it were singular (my second biggest peeve is the misuse of "was" in the subjunctive, when one ought to use "were").

A single person cannot be a "them!" That would be plural! "If that guy was smaller, I'd kick their ass" is wrong on so many levels (well, two)! Don't say it!

/als;kdjasdfa;lkjfasd
//aneurism

The article also brings up that other pet peeve of mine -- the possessive of a word that ends in "S". I've gotten into arguments on this one, but the Chicago Manual of style backs me up; except for certain historical names, like Jesus and Moses, the correct form is "s's", hence James's car or Silas's breakfast. James and Silas are singular, for fark's sake, so you've gotta add the apostrophe s to make it possessive.

/sigh
//depressing to see "it's" misused even in newspapers and magazines, where you'd think the editors would know better

raavek: You couldn't add a semicolon there. There are only two subject-verb clauses, and they're separated by a "but" (which means no semicolon). The part that's particularly run-on is a dependent clause, so you can't put a semicolon between it and the first part.

"Can't," I should say.

KrispyKringle
How would you fix it though? It apprear run on, and not only that, but...

"I see on a daily basis these days."

That just seems a bit redundant to me lol

raavek: No, I was agreeing that it's run-on. But the clauses on either side of a semicolon must be able to be stand-alone sentences. Commas are for dependent clauses (i.e. things that can't standalone), and semi-colons are for independent ones.

I'd just rewrite the sentence. But in any case, good grammar doesn't necessarily go hand-in-hand with good writing. And one need not be an English professor to know that that farked up supermarket sign was wrong.