Oh, and Gaudere’s Law has claimed another victim. Me.
In my previous post I spelled “justify” as “jusify”. Mea culpa. It was a typo rather than an actual construct error, but there you go.
O hamsters of the SDMB,
I humbly submit my rant to thee. . .
Sorry, wrong type of apostrophe.
Someone once said: An apostrophe doesn’t mean, “Here comes an s!”
I just wish more people knew this.
hehe they accused me of skipping apostrophes… now they Pit people who overdo it… 
Will they ever be satisfied ?
It’s because that’s what the human’s names end up “sounding” like when spoken telepathically by the dragons.
This is slightly off topic, but one day my friends and I drove passed a strip club that had a sign on the door reading: “Sexy” Servers.
Underline it, italicize it, put a great big god damn star next to it if you really want, but for Christ’s sake don’t use quotation marks to emphasize something.
If people use apostrophes incorrectly more often than they use words that should have an apostrophe then they would be more correct (and more readable) if they never used apostrophes. I wish I was allowed to write an apostrophe-disabling trojan to send to these people.
BTW (and I realise I’m tempting fate) has anyone ever seen gras’s or Jesu’s or ha’s yet, or has the trend been so far confined to “here comes an added ‘s’”?
hajario says in this thread that he has seen someone write the male name Charles as
I can see a “Go’s” right now (written by boss of course, on a whiteboard). Not sure if it counts, as it seems to be a shortening of “goes” which is pretty fucking pointless as it its.
It’s not that I mind the act of adding an apostrophe where it isn’t needed (It is irritating, a bit) It’s that whenever I see it done I am reminded of my boss, which is much worse.
Sometimes you’ll get a twofer: Inappropriate apostrophe and incorrect homonym on the same sign, such as on the hand-lettered suggestion posted in a fish-and-chips joint on Cape Cod:
Try Are Fried Clam’s
I often get spam advertising the opportunity to get “University Diploma’s.” I’m definitely not going to want a degree in English from this alleged institution of higher learning.
Spudo, I don’t mean to scare you, but there’s a chance that sign could be accurate as is!
CJ
I sure wouldn’t want to work there!
Slightly off-topic, but I’m in a ranting kind of mood…
One of the Support Managers at the Wal-Mart where I work is continuously floating memos concerning peoples scheduals. Occasionally, she needs to ask someone to work an extra day, and has to adjust the person’s schedual accordingly. I turned in a doctor’s note two weeks ago stating I cannot work more than six hours in a shift, but she continues to schedual me for eight hours.
Not sure what the requirements are for being a manager at Wal-Mart, but apparently being able to keep track of your employees scheduals is not one of them. Neither is beng able to spell schedual, er, I mean schedule.
er, I mean, continually floating memos.
My God, grammar ineptitude is contagious.
Maybe they meant it sarcastically.
You know, like saying The Cat in the Hat is a “great” movie.
I think I’ve been guilty of this before, and I humbly apologize to all the perfect people out there. BTW, my favorite misuse of the apostrophe in one of my own posts was when I wrote “…who’s location is…” I wrote the post, read over it, hit submit, then saw that line. I was waiting for someone to jump on me about it, as I refuse to post a follow-up message each time I make a kistake.
In the day care where I work, there is a big display on the wall in which all of the kids have put up silhouettes of their faces. The title at the top reads:
Whose who?
Way to teach those kids proper grammar early.
According to my copy of The Baby Name Countdown, people actually name their kids with “apostophe’d names.”
A few examples:
A’drianna
A’isha
A’ja
Ash’leigh
B’etta
Candac’e
Jav’on
Destoniq’
Anig’
Lots more from the book, sadly…
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Quote from my ArcaMax Off the Wall newsletter of this morning:
So you’re not the only one, eh? 
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