# Lets jus't ban fucking apostrophe's.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 11, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443 "2003-08-11T18:20:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/61 "2003-08-12T16:43:06Z")
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> dalovindj, that laundry sounds like one I used to go to.
Is it in Brooklyn? On Bedford?
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### Author:  [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/62 "2003-08-12T17:20:45Z")
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> \*Originally posted by FisherQueen \*
> \*\*I see extra apostrophes everywhere. Do you know why this makes me so angry? Because correct apostrophe use is NOT THAT FREAKING DIFFICULT. Plural = no apostrophe, possessive = apostrophe. You don’t need a college degree for that. You don’t even need a high school diploma. You learned it in English every year starting in third grade, for Pete’s sake! It just ISN’T THAT HARD! \*\*
But then some people make it more difficult than it already is. They think “possessive…like _hers_…so I should be writing _her’s_.” So that makes me angry as well.
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### Author:  [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/63 "2003-08-12T17:24:24Z")
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> \*Originally posted by dalovindj \*
> \*\*Is it in Brooklyn? On Bedford? \*\*
Nope, in St. Louis, but the same language abuse. I still giggle when I think of the drop of laundry.
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### Author:  [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/64 "2003-08-12T17:39:30Z")
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> Nope, in St. Louis, but the same language abuse. I still giggle when I think of the drop of laundry.
It’s probably a natural translation mistake from Japanese to English if there is another sign with the same mistake. Damn. I was sure “We are not responsible in ANY of your belonging.” was a unique statement. Hell, I guess it might just be corporate policy.
I say it to people sometimes. When someone is acting sorry for themselves at a bar goes they got dumped or are lonely, and I don’t want to hear it, I just say “Hey, I’m not responsible in any of your belonging, pal!” and walk away chuckling while they typically look confused.
DaLovin’ Dj
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### Author:  [@julian64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/julian64)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/65 "2003-08-12T18:21:57Z")
I sympathise with the original poster’s frustration. As for correcting people, if there are sad fucks out there who _still_ can’t get apostrophes right, I can’t be arsed to change their grammatical diapers for them any more. Let them drown in the shallow end of the gene pool, their garbled words dribbling out of the sides of their mouths like snot and saliva.
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### Author:  [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/66 "2003-08-12T18:42:45Z")
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> \*Originally posted by dalovindj \*
> **"We are not responsible in ANY of your belonging!"**
All your’s laundry is belong to us.
:d&r:
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### Author:  [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/67 "2003-08-12T18:56:43Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Eve \*
> \*\*It is certainly not permissible at _my_ magazine, and never _will_ be, as long as I have breath in my body. \*\*
My employer’s stylebook for our quadruple-edited legal periodicals _requires_ using an apostrophe to denote a plural after initials. I learned this when I wrote an article on liability for storing protected health information on personal digital assistants. When I learned I was to abbreviate the plural as “PDA’s” my heart sank; like you I think it looks dreadful.
I’m not sure which other style book/books we used in creating that rule; generally, we base our style on reasonable authorities. I’d be interested to see if anyone knows of one that approves or requires this usage. Ah, I see Bren\_Cameron has provided one, but its for a different situation - no periods in PDA. Hmmmmm.
(Thank god we generally don’t have reason to refer to decades.)
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### Author:  [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/68 "2003-08-12T19:37:08Z")
I was biking and saw a pre-school with the sign:
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> No School on Friday’s
:rolleyes:
I just shuttered.
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### Author:  [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/69 "2003-08-12T22:46:07Z")
Are you sure you didn’t shudder?
😉
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/70 "2003-08-13T01:19:15Z")
Gaudere’s Law is all through this thread. Unbelievable.
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### Author:  [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/71 "2003-08-13T02:12:05Z")
This Onion headline made me giggle:
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> Seven-Foot-High Grammatical Error Displayed Next To Car Dealer’s Head
“It’s funny cause it’s true.”
[/Homer Simpson]
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### Author:  [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/72 "2003-08-13T13:19:21Z")
I work in printing and design and I suffer bad spelling, foul grammer and horrific puncutation everyday. And every day I come to work I face this sign:
Some people watch things happen,
Other people make things happen,
Which are you!
All I can think is, stop yelling at me!
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### Author:  [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/73 "2003-08-13T21:01:52Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Apricot \*
> … But it’s the “Cherry’s for sale” sign that has me going berserk lately.
Hey, they could be selling their daughter (virgin or not, as the case may be).
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### Author:  [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/74 "2003-08-13T21:07:06Z")
Or a girl named Cherry could be selling fors.
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### Author:  [@december](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/december)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/75 "2003-08-13T21:45:11Z")
I have never tried fucking an apostrophe. However, I have had sex during a period, at which time I did comma.
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### Author:  [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/76 "2003-08-13T21:52:02Z")
Ouch.
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### Author:  [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/77 "2003-08-13T22:53:01Z")
december, that is **baaaaad**. :eek:
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### Author:  [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/78 "2003-08-14T07:11:49Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Apricot \*
> \*\*There’s a sign in the local Wendy’s parking lot that makes me want to run for a big felt-tip marker.
> “DO NOT BLOCK ISLE”
> But it’s the “Cherry’s for sale” sign that has me going berserk lately. \*\*
What if it read “Cherry’s for rent”?
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/79 "2003-08-14T10:25:50Z")
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> \*Originally posted by dalovindj \*
> \*\*Engrish making me laugh. . .
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> DaLovin Dj
> (I left out the apostrophs in this post just for the OP) \*\*
Your first quote mark is actually 2 appostrophes rather than a double quote.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2003, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-just-ban-fucking-apostrophes/194443/80 "2003-08-14T10:28:03Z")
And now I see that someone has already pointed this out.
Oh well…
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