Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval - eviltoast
Linguistic body has relaxed rules on use of apostrophe to show possession, not traditionally correct in German
  • BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    In English, apostrophes are only used for possession and to indicate missing letters (usually vowels), as in contractions.

    My example showed apostrophes incorrectly being used for non-possessive plural nouns. I used a proper noun (“Johnson”) and a common one (“pizza”) to better illustrate my point.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 months ago

      Thanks.

      Wanted to make sure I was getting what you were puttin’ down.

      Yea, the rules are pretty clear, at least I always thought so.

      Kind of telling that so many people can’t be bothered to understand it.

      • BumpingFuglies@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Nah, it’s pretty simple. Pronouns don’t use apostrophes for possession; they only use them for contractions like “it’s”.