Lab studies show that this sharp decline disrupts the fragile balance of the English language. If ignored, the apostrophe will be extinct by 2020. Grammarians predict a subsequent breakdown of the entire language structure.
SPoCttEL has formed a coalition with concerned speakers, readers and writers of America to prevent the same fate here while there is still time.
With your help, the pro-apostrophe campaign can make a difference.
This disturbing image shows the apostrophe blatantly missing from its natural habitat (between the h and the s on healths).
Missing apostrophes such as these are forced into dangerous territory in such plural words as pea's, carrot's, shoe's and water's. There, they disrupt the homeostasis of the environment before withering and dying.
What can you do?
We at SPoCttEL encourage concerned citizens to save such apostrophes from certain death and reintroduce them into their natural habitats. Spread the word--be a voice for the voiceless!
Please do your part in protecting the apostrophe--for the children.
Take action today, for apostrophe's sake.
2 comments:
Check out this gem from the blog
of a man who I hear is a bestselling author:
"Christianity has lost it's epic wonder, it's been shortchanged in grandeur and majesty. It's lost it's sense of honor, dignity, and heavenly decorum."
While I'm somewhat on board with the sentiment, the punctuation is a bit grating. Perhaps he should hook up with the street sign folks in London--maybe they'd find a happy (and grammatically correct) medium. It's (or is it "its"?) a shame, isn't it?
So, the blatant misuse of apostrophe that bothers me the most is when people pluralize (real word?) decades and use apostrophes. I see "1950's, 1990's, etc." all the time.
Am I wrong here?
"Music from the 1950s" or if you're dead set on using an apostrophe, reword the phrase to say, "1950's music," because then the music actually belongs to the 1950s.
Also, trivial, but when people pluralize words such as CD or DVD and I see apostrophes...yeah, makes my teeth hurt!
DVDs and CDs have no business with apostrophes, again, unless something belongs to them, such as "the DVD's extras," or "the CD's case."
*sigh*
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