This might seem petty, but...
🧠 These people are stupid!
...please proofread your posts before publishing.
Q's misspellings are one thing, but too many post/post titles recently lead to confusion because of misspellings and missing punctuation.
Trying to help everyone make sense here.
Thanks!
As a former editor and total wordnerd with no time for grammar-copping the internet (shaming, ridiculing, snarkily correcting, or merely requiring people to use correct verbiage), I both agree and disagree with the OP.
Yes, spelling and grammar are important to communication. No, not in every context.
Here, I believe we care more about and focus more on IDEAS, HOPE, THE ONGOING MASS EXTINCTION EVENT, FACTS, and TRUTH than on the shapes of words about those topics on the screen. People on the go nowadays, at work, on their stupid phone, taking a moment to share something of interest to Q students...just can't be expected to get the spelling and grammar right. It's a fool's errand IMHO to try to get that perfection.
BTW you missed the terminal -s for the plural of "post" in the phrase "too many post/post titles" :)
As a current writer and erstwhile wordsmith in the documentation field, I agree.
I agree. My bugbear is misused apostrophes: people don't know the difference between the possessive and plural.
There was a legend who recently passed, John Richards, who used to run the Apostrophe Protection Society:
http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/
A worthy defender, thanks! In the best tradition of British eccentrics. Some things need to be preserved. We have standards to uphold. Fight the good fight or the Philistines will be upon us.
I mean, most of us were energetic 10-year-olds hopped up on sugary cereal when we learned this stuff, so it's hard to pay attention. I have ADHD on top of it, so what the hell were we talking about? Oh yeah. Apostrophe's. :) Tough to spell, tougher to place with consistent accuracy!
And the crappy school systems in this country don't help much. Not even teaching cursive handwriting is a crime against humanity.
Making things worse is the irregularity of English in general; "its" is possessive WITHOUT an apostrophe! The average person has got to be like WTF, you fuckers said it was "apostrophe s" for a singular possessive, then you bring this "ITS" bullshit? Qeq
So IMHO it's better to lighten up on people about the grammar and spelling. Unless they correct others about it, and do it wrong. Then its on! :)
It's on!
LOL did you catch it
Apostrophe's didn't need it; its did.
No. OP is Karening.
No, you don't pluralize the noun in this case, because it's an adjective.
The one before titles is an adjective. The one that needs the terminal -s is a noun.
The phrase should read "too many posts/post titles".
The slash is shorthand meaning "too many posts (plural) and too many post titles (plural)".
I guess you learned a lesson about clarity ;)
Yes you did. ;)
"You don't pluralize the noun in this case, because it's an adjective" isn't exactly a beacon of clarity. Because you do pluralize the noun in this case (posts), and it isn't an adjective.