This is a friendly pitting: Apostrophes and plurals

[Munch]

@BigT

I find you’re particularly problematic. For some reason, I inherently type it for your about half the time.

Try changing your inner monologue voice for your/you’re. Really drag out the “ooouuuuur” for “you’re” to almost 2 syllables as a mental reminder that there are two words in there.

[Shot_From_Guns]

@Chefguy

Show me where I called it wrong, moron.

Easy-peasy. You restate it yourself in just the next sentence of that post (emphasis added):

There’s nothing wrong with common usage, but it got to be common usage because of laziness in how we speak the language.

Don’t fucking open your mouth on the subject again until you’ve taken at least one undergrad-level course in linguistics. If you prefer self-edification, I’d recommend American English: Dialects and Variation by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes and English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States by Rosina Lippi-Green.

Fight your fucking ignorance already instead of wallowing in it. (Otherwise, why are you here?)

[Bryan_Ekers]

@The_Surb

When you are done tilting at this windmill, can you please pit using “of” in place of have? I see that all the time, would of, could of, should of. I just want to scream “no you dumbfuck, it’s would have, could have, should have!”

Don’t let’s get’s upse’t.

[MovieMogul]

So how would you spell the plural of this?

[Bosstone]

@ArchiveGuy

So how would you spell the plural of this?

It’s a proper name.

IT’S-IT’s opening stores to sell IT’S-ITs. IT’S-IT’s taste is amazing!

Whoo, my head’s spinning from writing that.

[Zaphod_Beeblebrox]

@Little_Nemo

It’s = it is. Always*

It can also mean “it has”, so the “always” is incorrect.

Edited to add: Zaphod, learn to start reading threads in their entirety before you post!

[Shot_From_Guns]

@Bryan_Ekers

Don’t let’s get’s upse’t.

Ugh, seriously? Upse’t?!

*Any *idiot could tell you that it’s *clearly *up’set.

[Bosstone]

@Shot_From_Guns

*Any *idiot could tell you that it’s *clearly *up’set.

Too true.

[Shot_From_Guns]

@Bosstone

Too true.

Wait a minute…

[Chefguy]

@Shot_From_Guns

Easy-peasy. You restate it yourself in just the next sentence of that post (emphasis added):

Don’t fucking open your mouth on the subject again until you’ve taken at least one undergrad-level course in linguistics. If you prefer self-edification, I’d recommend American English: Dialects and Variation by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes and English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States by Rosina Lippi-Green.

Fight your fucking ignorance already instead of wallowing in it. (Otherwise, why are you here?)

“Don’t open (my) fucking mouth”? Eat shit and die, asshole. From your condescending tone and your arrogance, it’s apparent that you graduated Magna Cum Loudmouth. You must have been just the smartest little prick in your whole high school.

[descamisado]

@Chefguy

. . . little prick . . .

Uhm, in a way, yes.

[needscoffee]

And I thought this was supposed to be a *friendly *pitting…

[Bosstone]

Guns is being friendly.

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

@Shot_From_Guns

You know what pisses me off? People whose language study ended with their eighth grade English class who think they know fuck-all about linguistics and proceed to pompously announce what’s “right” and what’s “lazy.”

Tangent, but as long as we’re all here: “fuck-all” actually means nothing or very little, not everything. That’s the British for you.

Dee dee dee deee.

[Bosstone]

@Jimmy_Chitwood

Tangent, but as long as we’re all here: “fuck-all” actually means nothing or very little, not everything. That’s the British for you.

Oh wow, I actually missed that the first time around.

Yeah, if someone knows fuck all about something, they don’t know shit.

[Shot_From_Guns]

@Chefguy

Eat shit and die, asshole. From your condescending tone and your arrogance, it’s apparent that you graduated Magna Cum Loudmouth. You must have been just the smartest little prick in your whole high school.

Uh huh. So you don’t have anything to show that you’re right. Again, care to explain why you’re bothering to post to a board dedicated to fighting ignorance?

@descamisado

Uhm, in a way, yes.

If we whipped 'em out, I have no doubt that my clit could beat his dick.

@Jimmy Chitwood:

I actually knew that. Apparently I couldn’t decide if I wanted to write “who think they know everything” and “who know fuck-all” and my brain just threw up its hands, said “fuck it,” and combined the two. It does that a lot.