Taming The Apostrophe

[NightWing]

I will apologize in advance to anybody who takes offense by this link. No offense is intended, but I just read another post where the apostrophe was incorrectly used many times.....as in adding ( 's) in order to make something plural. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!

This link will take all the guesswork out of it. Try it, you might like it.;)

http://www.users.bigpond.com/J_fersOffice/sample.htm

[Pineedles]

My wife is an 8th grade English teacher and I am constantly trying to catch her with mistakes in her day to day English. Thanks Nightwing, I'll study up. BTW, did I capitalize the word "English" correctly in my post?:laugh:

[Hermit Cover]

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[Pineedles]

In olden times there was shorthand. I can't reproduce it here with these fonts but my message would equate to "m w ng t try c fp tx i; sty. C ok? At least that's what I remember of the lanquage, when I tried to decipher my mother's Christmas list.

[Captain Bob]

Then there was the town's eccentric rich man in Newburyport, MA; wrote a whole book without any punctuation whatsoever, and had it printed, like in the late 1700's or so; at the end of the book he had a couple of pages of just commas, periods, apostrophes, etc, with a note saying something like "salt and pepper as you please"!

[Rinkerfam]

Captain Bob,
did you really mean to say "like in the late 1700's"? The common use of the word "like" as a pre-fix has got to be one of the most annoying trends in contemporary "American" English:D

[Pepper]

NightWing, I can see that you've been driven half out of your mind, and can relate! ;) Currently I'm battling insanity as a result of the latest affliction to the English language, which can be found in the form of "text messaging". Have you ever tried to read a text message sent to your cell phone by a teenager? :rolleye1:

Thanks for the link! I enjoyed it immensely! :D

[NightWing]

NightWing, I can see that you've been driven half out of your mind, and can relate! ;) Currently I'm battling insanity as a result of the latest affliction to the English language, which can be found in the form of "text messaging". Have you ever tried to read a text message sent to your cell phone by a teenager? :rolleye1:

Thanks for the link! I enjoyed it immensely! :D

No, I have never had a text message on my cell phone. That feature, along with many others, I chose not to activate. As long as I have a dial tone, a ring tone and can say "hello?" on it is all I need. My phone takes pictures and video too as long as I have a power cable connected to Seabrook. I would rather use my camera.;)

[Captain Bob]

Captain Bob,
did you really mean to say "like in the late 1700's"? The common use of the word "like" as a pre-fix has got to be one of the most annoying trends in contemporary "American" English:D

Actually, I sometimes toss in some loose lingo to make my writing seem more relaxed. But you're not off the hook yourself - I might do some research as to when we started thinking we had to add the work "really" (oop - like I used the word "actually" myself....)

CB

[Rinkerfam]

hahahaha!!! How did I not see that coming?:laugh: Thanks for catching me on that one.