Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?
hedge_lord@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A while ago I became terribly aware of people writing things like “apostrope’s” to indicate plurality. I was pretty convinced that it was a new thing, but I’ve since found examples of people doing that far in the past! I’m not sure if they were doing it at the same rate but they had been doing it for a while.
I know that some foreign language speakers use this as part of their grammar, but they do so according to a rule system. The people I encounter doing this have only ever known american english and do so without any apparent consistency. If you’re going to alter your grammar in that way, at least make it consistent! Like these weirdos. Professionals have standards.
Soku@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s [Greengrocer’s apostrophe ](greengrocers apostrophe g.co/kgs/1gWQ9nT)