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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Doesn’t “idiot’s” in this example show possession?
And the “Johnson’s” is a plural?
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.