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Mike 03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:18 PM
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Many grammatical mistakes are forgivable, but not the apostrophe.
There's no excuse for abuse of the apostrophe.

It's so simple.

The apostrophe indicates the possessive, and the absence of the apostrophe indicates number.

That is not Nazi-ism, it's just goddamn grammar and common sense.

Since when does being a Good Democrat mean just throwing grammar out the window?

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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:19 PM
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1. Your' right.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:21 PM
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2. Why do people make ANY of the many grammatical errors, not just with apostrophes, they make?
It must be because of laziness, or poor instruction in English classes, or inattention. I don'tknow but certainly the written form of English has suffered over the years...
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:22 PM
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3. Fuckin'g A right!
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:34 PM
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5. There you go, making my point! nt
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LeftyFingerPop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:35 PM
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7. Oooops! You're right!
:D
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:23 PM
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4. Who threw grandma out the window?
Those bastards!
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 07:35 PM
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6. It's difficult
To remember its proper use.

:hi:
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styersc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 09:42 PM
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8. I guess since you've decided to be a grammar facist, I should
point out that there is no such thing as a hyphenated nazi. It's nazism, not nazi-ism.

Heil grammar!!!
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-22-09 01:00 AM
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13. Although I've never seen "nazi-ism" before, I like it,
because that's how I say it. I think the people cuius penes lingua est in the long run should make it a word now.
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 10:37 PM
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9. "its" doesn't have an apostrophe, but here the lack of apostrophe indicates possessive
:banghead: ;) :hi:

But other than that, I don't think the rules for apostrophes are too hard :)
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 10:47 PM
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10. Misuse of quotation marks irritates, too.
Some friends and I were at a bar and grill not long ago. There was a sign at the bar that said "Wednesday's special--'Tacos'". We asked what the "tacos" really were.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 10:48 PM
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11. My grammar and spelling are so bad
that when I got on here for the first time I got more troll accusations based on grammar and spelling than anything else

:rofl:
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B3Nut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 10:56 PM
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12. I thought the apostrophe was the crux of the biscuit?
:shrug:

According to Frank, anyway... ;)
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