Comment on Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval

• BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In English, apostrophes are only used for possession and to indicate missing letters (usually vowels), as in contractions.

  My example showed apostrophes incorrectly being used for non-possessive plural nouns. I used a proper noun (“Johnson”) and a common one (“pizza”) to better illustrate my point.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks.

    Wanted to make sure I was getting what you were puttin’ down.

    Yea, the rules are pretty clear, at least I always thought so.

    Kind of telling that so many people can’t be bothered to understand it.

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  • vatlark@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not always that simple…

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    • BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah, it’s pretty simple. Pronouns don’t use apostrophes for possession; they only use them for contractions like “it’s”.

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