Linguistic body has relaxed rules on use of apostrophe to show possession, not traditionally correct in German
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Oh they mentioned Verein Deutscher Sprache who suggests words like “Klapprechner” but forgot to mention a much bigger online movement to prevent anglicisms where we all speak Zangendeutsch. Just come over to !ich_iel@feddit.org
BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Interesting. In English, I’d say the “idiot’s apostrophe” an apostrophe that’s used for a non-possessive, non-contraction ‘s’.
E.g., “The Johnson’s are going to the mall to buy pizza’s.”
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Doesn’t “idiot’s” in this example show possession?
And the “Johnson’s” is a plural?
BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zip 5 weeks 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.