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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 1:32:10 PM

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I adore the ellipsis.

I overuse it ALL the time...and I'm not gonna change!!

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 1:32:10 PM

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But lw, how does that account for the scary-smart folks in their 50s (or would that be 50's ) or 60s who are obviously otherwise well educated?

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ORIGINAL: MisterP61I'll tell you how. English was never and will never be My favorite subject. I was the Math and Science guy, not the English and (dating Myself now) Social Studies guy. I do OK most of the time, but I will abuse the shit out of apostrophe at times.

Oh, were you the guy tsk tsking at the next pump when I had to pull out a calculator to figure out exact mileage?

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 1:34:36 PM

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Thank you MistressDarkArt.

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 1:50:06 PM

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OK, is this better, ET?

And if that's not the goofiest look on a face you've ever seen while being corrected, I don't know what is!

Sorta, but wot is it with you wimmin constantly throwing out all these pics that show off how bangable you are to us HNG's?

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 2:02:56 PM

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That's cuz you're always asking for 'em!

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 2:42:29 PM

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But lw, how does that account for the scary-smart folks in their 50s (or would that be 50's ) or 60s who are obviously otherwise well educated?

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ORIGINAL: MisterP61I'll tell you how. English was never and will never be My favorite subject. I was the Math and Science guy, not the English and (dating Myself now) Social Studies guy. I do OK most of the time, but I will abuse the shit out of apostrophe at times.

Oh, were you the guy tsk tsking at the next pump when I had to pull out a calculator to figure out exact mileage?

I never tsk... but there are times at a register and I hand the clerk a $20 for a $15.47 order and watch them struggle to figure out the change. I just tell them $4.53 and they never believe Me until they actually do the math on paper or with a calculator. Math has always been logical to Me and English/Social Studies not so much.

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 4:07:18 PM

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I always had lousy grades in math classes. My grade 9 teacher sat me at the front, he knew if I was scratching my head, I didn't understand. Once I started working full-time as a cashier, it was the old timey ones and I had to count back the exact change. No problem with that. I still do it in stores, hand over odd change to get back quarters and such. Cashiers look at me as if I have 3 eyes.

The same thing happened when I started doing accounts receivables and payables. Surprised family & friends that I could do so, knowing my dismal school years with math. Just goes to show, dry classroom math = no go. Actual real world applicable math = really good at it.

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 4:09:08 PM

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What really gets me, though, is when I see it in an obviously expensive and lovingly crafted shop-sign. I don't quite see how somebody can labour for hours creating such signs without bothering to look up the spelling and grammar involved.

http://www.apostropheabuse.com/

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Links and visuals illustrating an orthographic pet peeve.

Thanks for the awesome link, kalikshama! It surprised me that some of the most glaring offenders were huge corporations, like Target, Kmart, Whole Foods, Country Inn and Suites, CNN.

And this just had me shaking my head. For gawd's sake, signs are their entire business!

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 4:36:12 PM

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I adore the ellipsis.

I overuse it ALL the time...and I'm not gonna change!!

I...adore...the...ellipsis...as...well, and you all just read that...in...William...Shatner's...voooiiiiccee....

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 4:48:00 PM

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First, I am a tried-and-true Grammar Nazi but dyslexics always get a pass from me.

I suffer from acalculia. I would never hold dyslexia against anyone.

Second; I really just can't help going back to laziness.

In high school, as good as I was at foreign languages, I was awful at English except for Creative Writing. I did well, there.

When I got my first computer (yes, it was 1998 even though a family member had something to do with "inventing" the damned things), I wanted to write but my form was awful.

What could I do? I figured I was sitting in front of the best information-gathering tool (That's right, kiddies. It's not just for porn hunting) on the planet so, I got educated. It took a good couple of years to become passable.

Still occasionally, the spell-checker will catch "errors" but some of them are intentional so I leave them but, in this day and age, some of the messages I have seen are just plain "I-Stopped-Giving-A-Fuck-Long-Ago" lazy.

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 4:51:34 PM

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I forgot to upload the Grammar Nazi Badge

For those that don't speak German, it reads: "Grammar Makes You Understood".

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 6:39:06 PM

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One would never know Master has dyslexia. He just happens to be the type who uses spell correction and reads his posts over and over again until he hits the send button and even then, he will re-read it again and go back and fix his mistakes.

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 7:22:02 PM

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He just happens to be the type who uses spell correction and reads his posts over and over again until he hits the send button and even then, he will re-read it again and go back and fix his mistakes.

Good man! I do that too, because I'm a maddening combination of nitpicky editor and lousy typist.

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 7:50:22 PM

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What a confidence knocker to know that people were probably laughing at my posts all along.

Actually, I always thought your posts were articulate and intelligent.

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I proof read, correct and send and then proof read it again and usually spot...

I do this too.

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It wasn't at all amusing to me because what you're actually doing is mocking people who clearly have learning disabilities and I'm one of them.

I'm not amused - I cringe like the woman in the first picture I posted. I've had to abandon epub books because I found them unreadable due to errors in the published format and am seriously considering taking the time to reformat them. I can't enjoy literotica with errors and have to fix them before I can print and enjoy them.

On a perhaps related note, I spent an hour yesterday moving beans and grains from jars with lots of empty space to smaller jars.

When I lived with my mother for a few months, we butted heads about me moving leftovers into smaller containers - she thinks it's a waste of energy to do this and I twitch when I see 1/4 C of food in a 4 C container.

Back to the forums - even though it pains me to do so, I will make a concerted effort to decipher posts by new posters that I find almost unreadable (again, this does not apply to you.) I'll point out that they are hard to read and would get better answers if people didn't have to struggle to understand them. If people mention a disability, I'll try extra hard.

But I'm not going to put any effort into posters who refuse to make a reciprocal effort like this one:

and my writting style is that of a first draft,just getting it out there,if for some reason i was publishing my work then i might give a damn about paragraph structure,lol.

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 8:59:34 PM

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But I'm not going to put any effort into posters who refuse to make a reciprocal effort like this one:

and my writting style is that of a first draft,just getting it out there,if for some reason i was publishing my work then i might give a damn about paragraph structure,lol.

Why would someone sabotage themselves this way? That person IS publishing their work for everyone on the planet with an internet connection to see. It's a cringe-worthy, lazy, and sloppy attitude. Would this same person post a picture of him/herself straight out of bed in an old stained, ratty t-shirt, hair catawampus, messy unmade bed, with morning eye-goobers glued to their lashes?

<shudders to think yes, perhaps some people would do that>

ETA: just read that thread. While I have much compassion for the difficult situation the OP is in, that person is asking for quite a lot from someone they have yet to meet and is just making it worse by their devil-may-care presentation.

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 9:21:47 PM

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 9:26:18 PM

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^^^Likes!! That was hysterical :-)

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/23/2014 10:06:28 PM

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/24/2014 12:37:37 AM

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^^^^^AWESOME!!

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RE: Apostrophe S: 's for plural? - 3/24/2014 4:43:33 AM

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One would never know Master has dyslexia. He just happens to be the type who uses spell correction and reads his posts over and over again until he hits the send button and even then, he will re-read it again and go back and fix his mistakes.

'Type' is the right word. Not all dyslexics can do that, it depends on what sort of dyslexia they have. Dyslexia is very broad and wide, meaning it isn't the same in any two people. The one thing most of us have in common is the huge help we get from computers but computers are by no means dyslexic proof. There are also different types of dyslexia as well as dyspraxia and dysgraphia, which often go hand in hand with dyslexia.

What we should never believe is, if one dyslexic can do something, we should all be able to do it. Steve for example can learn languages easily but because I have auditory dyslexia, learning a new language is much more difficult.

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