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sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

If you disagree, look at this headline from a Scottish paper.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14476632.Private_school_leavers__ball_axed_due_to_drunken_pupils/?ref=mr&lp=13

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

Its amazing the number of people who cant use apostrophe's correctly nowaday's. It seem's teacher's dont teach kid's how to spell or punctuate any more. Crying or Very sad

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

Hod · Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 1613 Location: Home

Whilst the passive voice is to be avoided, cliches are old hat and its important to use apostrophe's (and adverb's) right, note the following:

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Join me in the World Society For The Abolition of Apostrophe's.

Fees' are moderate.
Reduction's for Pensioners'

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

Scot47 is clearly a Germanophile!

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Apostrohobe.

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

MI6agent · Joined: 16 Apr 2016 Posts: 87 Location: Dark Web

"Tesco, Britain's biggest supermarket, is in a class of is own when it comes to apostrophe abuse. You'd think that someone among its half a million employees would know better than to put up saying "Kids toys". It ges worse in the clothing department: a simple "Kids" seems fair enough, but the signs nearby are a scarcely credible "Mens" and "Womens". The meaning may be clear but the sloppiness demonstrated by this insult to the intelligence of its customers makes you wonder what else the company gets wrong. Sell-by dates? Prices?"
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2013/aug/16/mind-your-language-apostrophe

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Shaky

Apostrophes are BAD. That is why.

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

"Double dot" ? It is called an umlaut. Diacriticals of any kind are an abomination and contrary to the laws of God and Nature. I especially disapprove of the circumflex. Grave and acute accents are almost as bad. The tilde should be extirpated.

sheikh radlinrol · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

In sensible languages like German all nouns are capitalised. Milgov in Germany after 1945 (British Administration) seriously proposed that German orthography should be reformed and that all nouns should be written with lower-case initial letters. Some looney in BritMilGov had figured out that Germans are autocratic because they were taught to capitalise nouns.

And you thought that scot47 was crackers ?

Hod · Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 1613 Location: Home

German nouns aren't written with capital letters now, are they? You mean the first letter, language guru that you are.

German's also moved on since 1945.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1996

But why is it that German uses a capital letter at the start of every noun?

Ich trinke Bier. (I drink beer).

There is no word "bier" in German. Use lowercase by mistake, and not one person will misunderstand. To say that German is a sensible language, which is a daft statement anyway when no language is non-sensible, shows some sort of bizarre political correctness. Only real Germans or robots accept their language without question.