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!
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.
They’re busy throwing our money up in the air in celebration.
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.