Author Topic: Apostrophes: (Read 6484 times)

Perd Hapley · « **on:** December 17, 2015, 12:28:49 AM »

You should not use them to pluralize common words.

Ben · « **Reply #1 on:** December 17, 2015, 12:30:11 AM »

What words'?

just Warren · « **Reply #2 on:** December 17, 2015, 12:39:57 AM »

'batin!

Regolith · « **Reply #3 on:** December 17, 2015, 12:49:05 AM »

Quote from: Ben on December 17, 2015, 12:30:11 AM

What words'?

Word's like these un'z.

Angel Eyes · « **Reply #4 on:** December 17, 2015, 01:02:06 AM »

Dont tell me how to use apostrophe's.

griz · « **Reply #5 on:** December 17, 2015, 07:45:33 AM »

I dont use them except in special circumstance's.

230RN · « **Reply #6 on:** December 17, 2015, 08:18:31 AM »

Its is its own possessive.

Dont need no apostrophe nohow.

I dont agree with that, but that's the way it's.

I seem to vaguely recall using a typewriter that didn't have a "one" or an exclamation point key. You typed a lower case "ell" for the "one," and a period-backspace-apostrophe for the exclamation point. It may have been my mother's, from wayback when. Those were the days when the ribbons were two-colored, red and black. There was a key to kick the ribbon carrier up higher to strike a red letter.

brimic · « **Reply #7 on:** December 17, 2015, 08:43:36 AM »

Another grammar nazis' thread.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #8 on:** December 17, 2015, 09:20:44 AM »

Quote from: 230RN on December 17, 2015, 08:18:31 AM

Its is its own possessive.

Dont need no apostrophe nohow.

I dont agree with that, but that's the way it's.

I seem to vaguely recall using a typewriter that didn't have a "one" or an exclamation point key. You typed a lower case "ell" for the "one," and a period-backspace-apostrophe for the exclamation point. It may have been my mother's, from wayback when. Those were the days when the ribbons were two-colored, red and black. There was a key to kick the ribbon carrier up higher to strike a red letter.

Does your keyboard not have a capital "L"?

makattak · « **Reply #9 on:** December 17, 2015, 09:40:34 AM »

I should have known better than to click this thread.

Misused apostrophes are like fingernail's on a chalkboard.

Brad Johnson · « **Reply #10 on:** December 17, 2015, 10:07:16 AM »

Quote from: brimic on December 17, 2015, 08:43:36 AM

Another grammar nazis' thread.

Bring on the Word Crimes!

https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc

Brad

230RN · « **Reply #11 on:** December 17, 2015, 07:19:22 PM »

I do "overuse" quotes.

I was "told" a long time ago that there's no such word in the language as "gotten," as in "have gotten," but it sounds so awkward to use "have got" in many places. I will often skip correct grammar and use common phraseology simply for readability.

Regolith · « **Reply #12 on:** December 17, 2015, 09:52:43 PM »

Quote from: 230RN on December 17, 2015, 07:19:22 PM

I do "overuse" quotes.

I was "told" a long time ago that there's no such word in the language as "gotten," as in "have gotten," but it sounds so awkward to use "have got" in many places. I will often skip correct grammar and use common phraseology simply for readability.

Gotten is a perfectly cromulant word.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #13 on:** December 17, 2015, 10:01:41 PM »

Quote from: 230RN on December 17, 2015, 07:19:22 PM

I do "overuse" quotes.

I was "told" a long time ago that there's no such word in the language as "gotten," as in "have gotten," but it sounds so awkward to use "have got" in many places. I will often skip correct grammar and use common phraseology simply for readability.

The pastor of my church, at least in the written word, says things like, "We've some Christmas cookies for the children..."

I rarely hear or see people use that construction, and it sounds very formal and old-fashioned to my ears. So of course, I've a desire to use it, myself. (See what I done, thur?) Obviously, it is more economical than "We've got," and is more elegant at the same time. Unnecessary words make for poor style.

Sergeant Bob · « **Reply #14 on:** December 17, 2015, 10:47:42 PM »

You can have my apostrophes when you pry them from my cold, dead, hands!

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #15 on:** December 17, 2015, 10:54:29 PM »

Quote from: Sergeant Bob on December 17, 2015, 10:47:42 PM

You can have my apostrophes when you pry them from my cold, dead, hands!

That there ain't no Oxford comma!

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #16 on:** December 18, 2015, 12:08:13 AM »

Quote from: fistful on December 17, 2015, 10:01:41 PM

The pastor of my church, at least in the written word, says things like, "We've some Christmas cookies for the children..."

I rarely hear or see people use that construction, and it sounds very formal and old-fashioned to my ears. So of course, I've a desire to use it, myself. (See what I done, thur?) Obviously, it is more economical than "We've got," and is more elegant at the same time. Unnecessary words make for poor style.

It also has the advantage of being correct, inasmuch as "we've" or "I've" are proper contractions for "we have" and "I have," respectively. Ain't nuthin' wrong with saying "We have some Christmas cookies ..."

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #17 on:** December 18, 2015, 12:33:56 AM »

We've no doubts it is correct.

just Warren · « **Reply #18 on:** December 18, 2015, 02:17:04 AM »

So you're we've-ing in and out of this thread?

TechMan · « **Reply #19 on:** December 18, 2015, 06:40:30 AM »

Thread veer (some what)...let us talk about spaces'. Single space or double space after a period?

230RN · « **Reply #20 on:** December 18, 2015, 07:38:08 AM »

I wuz traned to duble space in my typing class in the late 1940s. Seems more reedible, but that mite be cause I wuz traned thataways.

(I just drove my dictionary/spellchecker nuts.)

I seem to recall that some sites "correct" that double-space to single spaces after a period.

What really bugs me somehow, is the space-comma rather than the comma-space which some people use. An acquaintance of mine does that, and he says his English teacher or somebody said that space-comma was correct... but I don't see it used that often.

Terry

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #21 on:** December 18, 2015, 07:47:33 AM »

Quote from: 230RN on December 18, 2015, 07:38:08 AM

What really bugs me somehow, is the space-comma rather than the comma-space which some people use. An acquaintance of mine does that, and he says his English teacher or somebody said that space-comma was correct... but I don't see it used that often.

Terry

So ,the space-comma would be like this ,then?

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #22 on:** December 18, 2015, 07:58:39 AM »

Apostrophe Now!

I love the smell of correction fluid in the morning!

charby · « **Reply #23 on:** December 18, 2015, 08:23:56 AM »

Seriously, there are bigger things to worry about. For example, is Donald Trump's hair a horcrux?

TechMan · « **Reply #24 on:** December 18, 2015, 09:41:24 AM »

Quote from: charby on December 18, 2015, 08:23:56 AM

Seriously, there are bigger things to worry about. For example, is Donald Trump's hair a horcrux?

Yes. Now let us get back to talking about apostrophe.

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