This is the part that annoys me. I’ve been both tested and vaccinated, and I’d take a vaccination every day of my life over any more tests. Sticking a giant swab into the middle of your head is WAY more invasive than that little needle was.
This is something the pedant in me pays attention to.
Current practice seems to be to just add an s to uppercase letters, as long as it won’t be mixed up with an actual word or otherwise confusing. So Ks is fine.
For lowercase letters or places where it is confusing, an apostrophe can be used, e.g. A’s, q’s, t’s.
There’s also the trend of italicizing the letter (or word when referring to the actual written word) and then adding an unitalicized s, e.g. Ks, As, qs. I don’t use that for single letters, but I will for words, like “How many buts are in that paragraph?” (I may also use ‘How many "but"s are in that paragraph?’)
The rule I’ve sometimes seen that I prefer (since this is a thread about Fucking maskholes, doncha know?) is that plurals should be written with an apostrophe when it’s clearer that way, in particular when the thing being pluralized isn’t a word. That would means numbers (like, in the 1960’s) or single letter (a’s and b’s) or perhaps non-word clusters of letters (Now I know my abc’s), and such-like. This rule makes perfectly good sense to me.
Many people at work have apparently responded to the “get vaccinated or get tested” announcement by refusing to wear any kind of face covering at all. I actually asked my manager this morning if the corporate face covering policy was still in place; he said it was, and then added that he hasn’t seen any studies showing that it does any good.
On the plus side, an employee was injured today badly enough that they needed medical attention, and someone actually called an ambulance instead of just stuffing the victim into the car of a designated “first responder” (defined here as an employee who took a first aid course).
I hate to burst your bubble, but there’s no apostrophe when abbreviating a decade that way. It’s 1960s. You would, however, replace the first two digits with an apostrophe if you were to leave them off: the '60s.
Sorry if this continues a hijack. I thought it worth mentioning.
Agreed. I wear a mask to protect my boss, who’s in his 70’s and fully vaxxed, as am I (and getting up there in years, too). And one of my daughters is very high risk. No one should have to go to work and be exposed to doofuses who can’t be arsed to follow simple safety precautions. I’ve already lost one person I know to covid. That’s too much.
Fine, let them join. This is the BBQ Pit! Here, we can have some fun kicking their virtual on-line asses around. At least they can’t infect us over the Internet!
Really? needscoffee mentions that she lost somebody to COVID, and your response is sarcastic violins?
I mean, we already knew that maskholes are generally indifferent to other people’s risk and suffering, but they don’t usually proclaim it quite so blatantly.
Maybe, but I was wondering if it might be a moneymaking ploy for a “defense fund.”
Not in Oregon. Like has happened in common parlance, assault means injuring someone in the Oregon criminal assault statutes. Threatening someone is menacing, offensive noninjurious contact is harassment.