I'm sorry. The rant you just planned out is for not. I know the apostrophe in the title is misplace. However, if, for some reason, the title did not make your blood boil, this thread may be important.
Why is the apostrophe so misused today? Why is it that people insist on ignorance of this important part of grammar? I've been seeing it more and more. Why? Is it because of the internet? What can we do to help this little punctuation mark? Does it even matter? I have decided to place this in World Events rather then The Tavern as the apostrophe suffers ignorance on a global scale.
FAQ:
I know not the way's of the apostrophe's, will you please teach me?
I would be happy to. (Deliberate misuse of apostrophes in the quote.)
You do know that by trying to protect it you are only halting the evolution of language, right?
If language is evolving into a repulsively nonsensical mass of words and pictograms, I say halt it.
I agree with you, but what can I do about it?
Correct it. Ask store owners to change their signs. lead a protest. Create pointless forum threads. In short, be a general nuisance to the point that people around you find themselves better off using the apostrophe correctly rather then dealing with you, but not to the point you get punched in the face.
So, if you agree that we should try to help the apostrophe I'd love to know. If you think it's a waste of time, that's even better, as I would love to debate this with you.
And why is this thread also in the politics section?
Glitch. You saw it in here before anyone had posted in another thread in World Events (etc), so it showed up as the thread last posted in in both forum sections.
I wouldn't do this myself because a minority of people would take something like this serious enough to enforce. Not many people care about proper punctuation compared to the majority who don't. I do really want more people to spell properly.
This still should be in the Tavern, but I'd like to point out the irony here: I just found something that constitutes as a World Event. The apostrophe has been ban from street signs in London. The reason given is that a) apostrophes make using GPS's harder, but the the company that makes TomToms said that that is flat out BS. B) apostrophes confuse pedestrians. I don't believe that.
To me, if they won't tell us the real reasons they want apostrophes off the streets, then there must be a hidden agenda. What conspiracy this would be, I don't know, but it's there.
