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'Proper punctuation' to return after apostrophe ban

12 pointsby UltimateEdgeabout 1 year ago

2 comments

sowbugabout 1 year ago
This is as good a place as any to tell a story about a grammar disagreement that effectively broke up a local social group. To protect the innocent, let&#x27;s say the group consisted of cousins.<p>It was a new club, and its logo was being designed. The first draft came back misspelled. But club members couldn&#x27;t agree what the correct spelling was.<p>Group A said it was &quot;The Cousins Club.&quot; They said &quot;cousins&quot; was an attributive adjective.<p>Group B said it was &quot;The Cousins&#x27; Club.&quot; To them, &quot;cousins&#x27;&quot; was a plural possessive adjective.<p>Group C said it was &quot;The Cousin&#x27;s Club.&quot; They couldn&#x27;t name the specific part of speech, and during the discussion demonstrated that apostrophe&#x27;s belong in lot&#x27;s of place&#x27;s.<p>The club did not survive this disagreement. I believe they did get the logo designed, but there were enough hurt feelings from the discussion that all the original momentum was lost.
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jurassicfoxyabout 1 year ago
The software industry (I include myself here) is so incredibly crappy that it&#x27;s easier to change the basics of English than write decent programs.