random short rant for today

[derp]

THE APOSTROPHE DOES NOT DENOTE PLURALITY! everyone needs to get their damn heads right.

those with something other than english as their native language get a pass. everyone else...

[RamblinRover]

@derp to expand on this pedantically:
Apostrophes do not make acronyms plural to "avoid confusion"/keep the "S" from being recognized in the acronym, because that is what the capitalization is for.
GMs. FIATs.
The "S" remains lowercase.

A proper noun can have an "s". Fords. Toyotas.
However, you technically shouldn't modify the noun when you otherwise would in pluralization according to rules. It technically shouldn't be "Mercuries" but "Mercurys", as one example.

In addition, possessive apostrophes don't get used with "its" because like "his" and "hers" it's a modified pronoun that is like a possessive "s", not a pronoun with its own actual possessive s. Is it hi's? him's? her's? No.

[phenotyp]

@derp

[WhoIsTheLeader]

@derp said in random short rant for today:

those with something other than english as their native language get a pass. everyone else...

People who learned English later in life seem to get it right more often.

[MUSASHI66]

@whoistheleader Agreed, this is way more common in native speakers than foreigners. Most people here don't do it, but messing up your/you're and there/their/they're as a native speaker is appalling to me, and no, I do not care how bad your school district was.

[Darkbrador]

@ramblinrover Nobody buys more than one Mercury, anyway.

[davesaddiction]

@derp

Of course, there are always exceptions...

Be sure to dot your i's and cross your t's.

[WhoIsTheLeader]

@derp

[RamblinRover]

@darkbrador Okay, but maybe they had a boat with more than one. Just putting possibilities out there.

[Darkbrador]

@ramblinrover correct

[Rusty Vandura]

Who made you the 'postrophe posse? But you're right.

[rctothefuture]

Your kiddin' me, ri'ght?

/s

[Rusty Vandura]

@ramblinrover said in random short rant for today:
@derp to expand on this pedantically:

Apostrophes do not make acronyms plural to "avoid confusion"/keep the "S" from being recognized in the acronym, because that is what the capitalization is for.
GMs. FIATs.
The "S" remains lowercase.

A proper noun can have an "s". Fords. Toyotas.
However, you technically shouldn't modify the noun when you otherwise would in pluralization according to rules. It technically shouldn't be "Mercuries" but "Mercurys", as one example.

In addition, possessive apostrophes don't get used with "its" because like "his" and "hers" it's a modified pronoun that is like a possessive "s", not a pronoun with its own actual possessive s. Is it hi's? him's? her's? No.

By fiat, in the Fiat Museum are found all of Fiat's Fiats. There, they're all theirs.

@ttyymmnn
@Chariotoflove
@ForSweden

[ttyymmnn]

@rusty-vandura

[Rusty Vandura]

@ttyymmnn said in random short rant for today:

@rusty-vandura

Though I thought he was through with that.

[Shop-Teacher]

@darkbrador said in random short rant for today:

@ramblinrover Nobody buys more than one Mercury, anyway.

@MontegoMan562 might like to have a word with you.

[frinesi2]

@derp errant apostrophe's drive me iNsAnE o_0.

[Shop-Teacher]

@derp Yes, and what particularly drives me nuts is that my phone keeps trying to autocorrect me to make it wrong!

My brother-in-law's sister (sister-in-law then?) makes wood burning art that she tries to sell on Etsy, and every single s gets an apostrophe put in front of it. Somebody actually tried to correct her, and she shot back that she was correct, because that's the way her phone told her it should be.

She's not sharpest spoon in the shed.

[Shop-Teacher]

@phenotyp

[frinesi2]

@frinesi2 Errant Apostrophe's would be a good name for a punk band ...

[MontegoMan562]

@shop-teacher said in random short rant for today:

@darkbrador said in random short rant for today:

@ramblinrover Nobody buys more than one Mercury, anyway.

@MontegoMan562 might like to have a word with you.

@Shop-Teacher @RamblinRover @Darkbrador
You guys better watch your damn mouth's if you're going to be talking down on my beloved Mercury.

Intentionally misused apostrophe included just to get back at you lol.

[Shop-Teacher]

@montegoman562 Bwahaha!

[RamblinRover]

@frinesi2 arguably an even funnier name if it were "Arrant Apostrophes".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arrant

More alliterative and it stacks one bad grammar joke with another - and brings in "arrant knaves"/"arrant nonsense" in a kind of winking way.