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Kipling
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scot47
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I am Life President of the opposition group "End Bourgeois Apostrophes Now"
(EBAN). In my complementary role as Treasurer I welcome all financial assistance to rid the world of this pestilential scourge. |
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Kipling
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| Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:31 pm Post subject: Apostrophe dum de dum de dum de dum............ |
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Let slip the dogs of war!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some get pretty heated about the whole thing.
It's just amusing that apostrophes have self appointed guardians and a protection society... as if there weren't other more pressing matters one could concentrate on.
Mr K
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Apostrophe I 'm not half the thing I used to be
Little bits are dropping off of me,
Oh can't you see
The apostrophe
Dum de dum de dum de dum deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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PierogiMonster
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As long as both the genitive case and most plurals are both marked by an 's' suffix, we'll continue to need the apostrophe (or something with a similar function) to keep things clear. Without apostrophes, the phrase 'the boys toys', for example, doesn't tell us how many boys have toys.
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Kornan DeKobb
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:02 pm Post subject: Re: Apostrophe Now!!! |
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It's a fairly activist group, I might add:
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| He said on his blog: "We are constantly getting residents asking for apostrophes to be put back in and as a council we have got to make a decision one way or another. |
I know if I lived there, I'd be on the phone at least weekly until this societal blight was rectified.
This could have ramifications. Do you think colons might be impacted over this?  |
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Sheikh N Bake
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| Only if you're operated on for colon cancer. Then you'll have a semicolon. |
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johnslat
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Dear Sheik,
"Then you'll have a semicolon."
Which still would function much better than a comma splice.
Regards,
John |
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Bebsi
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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| The horror...the horror! |
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed
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| Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:57 pm Post subject: Re: Apostrophe Now!!! |
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| Kipling wrote: |
| It is rather nice though, to see that the UK has an 'Apostrophe Protection Society" |
It's nothing next to their "Committee for the Promotion of Full Stops and the Prevention of Commas"... 
NCTBA ("Zed is Dead" is my credo...) |
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