How to use apostrophes, for fuck's sake - redux

One Obama.

Two Obamas.

Obama’s messed-up oath.

The Obamas’ sex life.

Obama’s in the bathroom right now and can’t come to the phone.

I thank you.

Whats you’re problem?

**jjimm **twitches at Cuckoorex’s post…

**WhyNot **giggles at jjimm’s expense…

Poster’s continue to fuck up apostrophe’s.

I’ve been told many times on the internet that no one cares about that.
I DO !!!

Bob the Angry Flower’s Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots

You mean its not for plural’s ? :smiley:

Watch out! Here come’s an “S”!

Or “whoops, there was an ‘S’. OMG it had an ‘A’ in front of it. I guess I should slam one after it, just in case. Don’t want anyone to think I’m slapdash!”

This thread is going to become an example of Gauderes’ Law at its finest.

I can just picture all them cheeky Gauderes, laughing smugly.

I also dislike the current trend of using apostrophes for pluralizing something because it’s short, i.e., “there are three M’s in that word.”

Gawd, yes.

There are three Ms in that word.
I have 15 DVDs in my pants.
The 1980s will never die.

An apostrophe is extraneous and messy.

Try having to go through a 80,000+ word document and correct every single time an apostrophe is used incorrectly, which is inevitably every time. And then sometimes some dumb shit doesn’t know the difference between commas and periods and comes up with crap like:

(insert nonsensical screaming and profanities here)

Seeing stuff like this makes me cry blood.

It’s “reduck’s”, isn’t it. Or are you just being playful?

Who cares? :rolleyes:

Some of the people in this thread do. And Lynn Truss. You carry on doing whatever you like, though. Some people may think you look stupid if you fail to follow the very simple rules; the majority won’t even notice, though.

Whats this’ all about then?

There *are no *“rules”. This is America, not France.

Ah… yeah, this happens a lot. The thread for people who don’t give a shit about this topic is actually down the hall. There next to the handicapped toilet.

Hey, don’t worry; it happens. We’ve been meaning to get a better sign.

I have recently noticed that a friend of mine thinks that “its” is spelled “its’”.