Or maybe tap-dancing it in on keyboards?
I dunno, it just seems plain lazy to me, whenever I see it.
One of my former proofreading clients would insist it’s apostroph’ies.
A hundred-and-ten percent. Just please don’t.
I just saw the person doing it again. I remembered you said this, and it totally cracked me up. But now I’m wondering if it’s done on purpose? :dubious:
It is usually people who are disappeared (by despotic governments, especially in South American countries, where it is a calque of “desaparecidos”), not objects in banal contexts.
Ha! This one makes my morning!
Sailboat
Hey, here’s another one.Drives me up the wall.How do you manage to hit the space bar between every word, but you just can’t manage to hit it after a period?
Maybe that’s what all the people who put spaces before periods are doing… they’re trying to make up for the no-space morons.
No , then they would be posting like this . And , mostly , they don’t.