"This annoys me so much, I am going to be a jerk about it." Topic

"And how is that any different from your usual behavior, OFM?"

I am going to admonish ALL thread originators who use the 's to indicate plurals in their thread title.

So far this week, we have seen:
Enemy's
Dragoon's
Apostrophe's (but this was deliberate)
Perry's

Enough is enough.
Stand by for stern admonitions.

Before some moron whines that "As long as he is understood, what's the problem?", let me just say that I am right and you are wrong.
The 's is used for possessives, NOT plurals. Tell me how that makes it understandable, PARTICULARLY if a foreign johnnie is trying tu understand what is written.

I would also like to point out that it is ALWAYS the person who one would think has English as his first language who makes this elementary mistake. The foregin johnnies take more pains over their English than do native speakers. With one or two exceptions…

No need to hit the complaint button on me for trolling.
I have already turned myself in.

Well it's just before New Year so I suppose you were due a fit of the vapour's.

I'm sick of teh for the. It's all over the place.

Fair call, but spelling is important as well i.e "to" and "foreign"….:)

Those are typo's.

Damn, I fell for your trap!

typo's

Is not the plural of typo, typos? (to agree with OFM's original post regarding possessive verus plural?)

mines jus not hapy wit teh stuf wats riten on hre. we ned to mak it bettrs.

Seen all of the above used by youth on social media postings,
grammar included.

Is not the plural of typo, typos?

That would be irony, hence the smiley

Yep, typos.

And really, if people can't (correct shortened version of cannot or can not) be bothered to spell check their work…..

Well, really.

I'll con'sider my'self admoni'shed.

I agree with the OFM.

The Horror!!!!

Just so.

Their, their. Everyone will soon get over there snit's. No reason to loose you're temper and let lose arrow's of criticism.

Amen!

How about everyone using "lay" instead of "lie"?

My dice were just laying there

I was laying around
--
Tim

OF: 1.Expressing the relationship between a part and a whole: "the sleeve of his coat".
2.Expressing the relationship between a scale or measure and a value: "an increase of 5 percent".

HAVE: 1.Possess, own, or hold.
2.Used with a past participle to form the perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect tenses, and the conditional mood: "I have finished".

I hate it when people use "of" when they mean "have".

People who don't know the bloody difference between a noun and a verb. Like this Nimrod.

link

As far as it goes, it seems we are all just keeping up
with the Joness, punctuationally speaking…

Well, even though I have a strong suspicion that I'm the moron referred to in the original post (I'm not, I've got cerstificates an stuff), I agree. The problem is many people know of the existance of apostrophes and seek to use them at any opportunity. I would prefer people to restrain themselves rather than scatter them willy-nilly in the vain hope that some may be right.

Edited to add a missing apostrophe.

The extra apostrophes these people use are the same ones they save by spelling "you're" as "your".

Is not the plural of typo, typos?

That would be irony, hence the smiley

However, since the subject of the OP was the incorrect use of "'s" in the title of the thread only, its use within the body of a message must not be rant-worthy and, consequently, can be overlooked in this instance.

typo's is I zink the abbreviation of typographicals, is it not so monsieur. And zerfore we DO require an apostrophe for it must stand zer for ze letters that are gone, n'est pas ? Zo with "graphical" all missing zere must be, I zink, an apostrophe and zo typo's.

But, and zis is the greater mystery, is not zee word "error" missing in its entirety ?

Ah oui.

Zis mystery we 'ave not yet solved.

It is the problem most strange.

Been watching Poirot again have we?

Ah, Monsieur Sage, you have ze eye most perceptive.

Actually being plural it is typos. As you state, the alternative long form would be typographical errors. But nice try.

People (usually American people) who don't know the difference between English and British.

Ze apostrophe it can replace a few letters, oui ? But, mes amis, it cannot replace whole words. Otherwise this is a valid sentance, no ?

' ' ' ' '

Oui, I may be dawhchezed for saying that, bah ! I care not !

As the story goes. Mark Twain didn't see the need for punctuation marks in his writing. When his editor persisted in complaining about the lack of punctuation. Twain sent him an entire page of various quotation marks in random order. His note said "Put them wherever they seem to fit ." Apparently his editor never raised the question again.

So for John:
:;"',.?/():";',.?!~`"':-;,.?`~!()*:";'-,.?" ' '-''''..,,:;::!(),.?;':",.?'":;'!?.,""""'''''":';!*()';":';?.,.,"':;.,?!*( ).,"'::'''' -
;-)

After the operation, I only had a semi-colon. Man, is that inconvenient!

"'s" is not used solely for possessives. It is also used to create a contraction of "is," such as "it's" meaning "it is."

Just sayin…

…or for "it has".

However, "its" is a different kettle of fish, being a possessive pronoun meaning "of it" or something similar. <new argument erupts>

Oh, good-oh, the apostrophe row. Must admit, I'm with the "get it right or don't use it!" brigade, it's one of the (few) things I get narked about with regard to writing and grammar. (Although walking past the local grocery store hissing "It's one banana, two BANANAS NO APOSTROPHE YOU …" gets you funny looks!)

Mind you, that might be because I know how to use them properly. If they did nothing else, the nuns were hot on grammatical accuracy!

I may be dawhchezed

Vous may be chienmaisoned for using even more execrable French than moi, aussi.

Je n'est comprande pas. Je suis anglais. Avez-vous une tasse de te ? Merci.

This complaint sounds more like it belongs on the Utter Drivel board.

I hope it was cross-posted for all to enjoy.

Yes, the line between a rant and utter drivel is a thin one, indeed!