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CultLeader4Hire 1d ago

I've studied the blade

https://lemmy.world/post/45537090

For the love of fuck, we’re using apostrophes to conjugate verbs now too?

Can’t even blame this one on autocorrect, we’ve gone full apostrophe means “here comes an s”

When a rogue 'see’s any enemy who’s low on HP after killing two mob’s Fixed the original post’s typos

I use the apostrophe whenever I’m too lazy to type the proper letter. Like:

‘’‘’’ ‘’‘’’ ‘’‘’ ‘’’ ‘’ ‘’‘’’ ‘’‘’’ ‘’’ ‘’’ ‘’‘’ ‘’‘’’ ‘’‘’’ ‘’’ ‘’‘’‘’ ‘’’ ‘’‘’‘’ ‘’’

kryptonianCodeMonkey 16h ago

BRO! Language! You kiss your mother with that mouth?

…‘’‘’‘’?..

,^…^,

^.^<

In some languages you use an apostrophe for pluralization in some cases. But even that doesn’t make sense for the one in the OP.

iamthetot 1d ago

What languages use an apostrophe for plurals?

Ligmanese

Ligmanese?

Ligma nese nuts

:^)

Dutch for example.

spoiler

iamthetot 1d ago

Interesting. From a quick look, seems like it only applies to some borrowed words, nothing native to the language?

Mhm, I can only think of loan words yes.

TheOctonaut 1d ago

He said language, not dialect. Swamp German doesn’t count

A lot of people aren’t native speakers and also this is an easy error to make even for native speakers.

DragonTypeWyvern 1d ago

It’s not a mistake native speakers would make unintentionally but I absolutely understand the ESL problems and, full disclosure, still have to remind myself about the rules for possessives.

It looks wrong and the system is wrong I will not apologize for or be bound by the failures of dead dudes

AnUnusualRelic 19h ago

I’m pretty sure non native speakers wouldn’t make this mistake.

this is an easy error to make even for native speakers.

Really? “See’s”?

i’ve heard native speakers are actually more prone to misusing apostrophes because they learned the sounds before writing, while non natives learn both at the same time

AnUnusualRelic 1d ago

You have to protect your letter’s from those dangerou’s terminal esse’s!

CultLeader4Hire 1d ago

Who ever made this it seems like

astutemural 13h ago

Hey, give the guy a break, cult leaders aren’t known for their grammar.

(Check OP’s username)