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Katrina
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 Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:32 am Post subject: Apostrophe Discrimination |
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Or, as the person who linked me to this article called it, "Picking Your Battles FAIL"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28938136/
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Jastermereel
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| Quote: | | "More importantly, they confuse people. If I want to go to a restaurant, I don't want to have an A-level (high school diploma) in English to find it." |
If a city councilor is really so confused by apostrophes that he thinks that having one in the name of a restaurant means it takes a high-school diploma (let us hope he has one) to find it, I think it's worth winning a battle against him.
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fate
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, apostrophe use is really not that fucking hard....that along with the misuse of they're/there/their mystifies me as a common mistake.
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Jastermereel
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In an attempt to turn this into an Importance of Punctuation thread:
The importance of a Comma:
http://trekmovie.com/2009/03/09/star-trek-still-called-star-trek/
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