I blame #phones for some of the most annoying losses of knowledge in young people.

- Nobody under 40 has a fucking clue how to use #apostrophes. Phones (a) make it take extra steps to add them and (b) seem to have been programmed by people who don't understand the plural possessive. I have never once seen a trailing apostrophe suggestion no matter how clearly the context called for it.

- Knowledge of an entire tense is disappearing because, for reasons I don't understand (though again maybe it's because of developers avoiding English classes) phones don't seem to understand that "has" can be a helping verb. I've never seen it across half a dozen android phones; the suggestion and autocomplete is always "had," whish is usually comically wrong.

Reading student work with these problems is a disturbing part of my work life.

#language #punctuation #GetOffMyLawn #ignorance

#How're #Things at #TheSyzitoInstituteForTheTerminallyIneffectual... | #AndOtherRhetoricalQuestions

#LetsPlay: #SquirrelsOnline...!

And, #DiscordIsForImbeciles...

#TheRevolutionWillBePunctuated; but, the #AngryIncels #Still can't #FigureOut how #Apostrophes #Work...

#That must #Suck for "they/them"...

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Some road signs that lack #apostrophes can be unclear what they mean 😉

I feel like it should have one…? The “work” #grammatically speaking owns its end, does it not?

Otherwise it’s just a statement about work ending in general, not this work in particular.

The importance of Apostrophes

#Apostrophes #Trump #Obama

Image courtesy of: #RichardAngwin