Take the apostrophe key off your keyboard, just get rid of it.

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January 26, 2023, 11:17 AM

Patrick-SP2022

Take the apostrophe key off your keyboard, just get rid of it.

quote:
Originally posted by OKCGene:
I think I still have an ancient copy of Strunk & White The Elements Of Style.

I haven’t touched it in 30 or 35 years.

Anyone remember this?
.

I have the Fourth Edition sitting on my bookshelf.
Picked it up a year or two ago as a handy reference.

January 30, 2023, 01:43 PM

motor59

I want that mug!

January 30, 2023, 10:47 PM

Rawny

quote:
Originally posted by motor59:
I want that mug!

No, you want this mug!

June 01, 2025, 08:51 AM

sigfreund

Resurrecting an old thread that seems appropriate again.

June 01, 2025, 09:10 AM

V-Tail

quote:
Originally posted by sigfreund:

Resurrecting an old thread that seems appropriate again.

Are you sure that you don't mean the old thread seem's appropriate?

June 01, 2025, 01:21 PM

gpbst3

For a second I thought you were talking about the ` above the Tab key. I`m going to start using it as an apostrophe and make my words sassy.

June 01, 2025, 02:08 PM

RichardC

quote:
Originally posted by sigfreund:
Resurrecting an old thread that seems appropriate again.

'taint .

June 01, 2025, 02:52 PM

V-Tail

'tis

June 01, 2025, 03:25 PM

nhtagmember

I like that mug

I should get one

June 03, 2025, 06:08 AM

trapper189

The mug is missing things then my socket set.

June 06, 2025, 07:28 PM

P220 Smudge

quote:
Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I should get one

Should've when you could've. Now they're unavailable, which is a shame. I want one.

Only one on that list that trips me up at times is "its" showing possession. I guess there are worse problems to have. I have a friend who insists on doing number 16 even though I used to call him on it. We had a big goddamn fight over that one. Now he just does it because he's stubborn and it still drives me up the wall, which might be the only reason to still does it.

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June 07, 2025, 03:07 PM

Rey HRH

The key to properly using apostrophes is minding your p's and q's, and knowing the difference between dos and don'ts.

[URL=https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Plurals/faq0008.html#:~:text=Plurals%20almost%20never%20take%20an,and%20don'ts%E2%80%9D).]The Chicago Manual of Style[/URL]

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.