Dark days for English grammarians -- "Founder Of Apostrophe Protection Society Disbands Group"

mhardy6647
mhardy6647 Posts: 33,950
edited December 2019 in The Clubhouse
Or, perhaps I should say:
Founder of Apostrophe' Protection Society Disband's Group
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/02/784063204/founder-of-apostrophe-protection-society-disbands-group
@Viking64 -- he sais know won care's! Whats their too due?
Now your our only hope.
B)
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,795
    I think that the protection of the apostrophe should be the concern of every English language speaker rather than one man. Maybe in his advanced years he realized that he was being too possessive.
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,167
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    @Viking64 -- he sais know won care's! Whats their too due?
    Uh-oh, synapses are not firing, twitching has ensued...someone call 911!
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
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  • JayCee
    JayCee Posts: 1,500
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    @Viking64 Now your our only hope.
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,167
    Is there still hope for the Oxford comma?
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,795
    jdjohn wrote: »
    Is there still hope for the Oxford comma?

    I hope so as, compared with the apostrophe, this is more of a baseline issue.
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  • tonyp063
    tonyp063 Posts: 1,091
    jdjohn wrote: »
    Is there still hope for the Oxford comma?

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  • SIHAB
    SIHAB Posts: 4,975
    I always figured a comma was an apostrophe that cannot fly.
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  • Mikey081057
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,195
    Now whatre we gonna do?
    Were in for it.
    I disabled signatures.
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    Save us Jimmy! (I hope exclamation points are ok!) :smile:
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  • vmaxer
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    No....
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    vmaxer wrote: »
    No....

    Oh no the dreaded use of dot,dot,dot - I recall Jimmy scolded me a while back on their use. :smile:
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,950
    OleBoot wrote: »
    I think that the protection of the apostrophe should be the concern of every English language speaker rather than one man. Maybe in his advanced years he realized that he was being too possessive.

    I stand in the presence of greatness, sir.

    B)
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,795
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    OleBoot wrote: »
    I think that the protection of the apostrophe should be the concern of every English language speaker rather than one man. Maybe in his advanced years he realized that he was being too possessive.

    I stand in the presence of greatness, sir.

    B)

    Awww, shucks.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,950
    I'm sure you meant shuck's.
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,795
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I'm sure you meant shuck's.

    Who is Shuck?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,950
    OleBoot wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I'm sure you meant shuck's.

    Who is Shuck?

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schuck
    (alternative spelling -- its it's a Hollywood thing, you know?)
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,795
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    OleBoot wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I'm sure you meant shuck's.

    Who is Shuck?

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Schuck
    (alternative spelling -- its it's a Hollywood thing, you know?)

    A Google reach too far. B)
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,950
    edited December 2019
    He was the first Shuck [ sic ] that popped into my mind...
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  • OleBoot
    OleBoot Posts: 2,795
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    He was the first Shuck [ sic ] that popped into my mind...

    Really? Never heard of him. Assumed you Googled. Going to bed. Sweet dream's.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,950
    edited December 2019
    Naw, I really, truly remembered him as a TV character actor from my impressionable yoot'.

    adio's ;)
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