A sad day for western civilization.

[Old Koreelah]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-02/apostrophe-protection-society-closes-down-john-richards/11756830

 

I gave up trying to find the old punctuation thread. The search function never seems to work for me.

 

 

[old man emu]

It's a catastrophe for the apostrophe.  Its abuse and misuse cries out "Me, too!" I call on all dedicated Grammar Police to be forever watchful for instances of attacks on its rightful place in the lingua franca of the World. English is the hypercentral language that holds the entire world language system together, and the apostrophe works twice as hard as any other punctuation mark to indicate either possession or contraction, depending on context.

 

Here's one recent thread dealing with the overall topic of grammatical correctness.

 

 

 

 

 

[Marty_d]

I think it's had its day, and should be put out to pasture.

 

 

[Yenn]

What! and end up like milk. Pasturised.

 

 

[nomadpete]

No, only up to my neck,,