Your Apostrophe Offend's Offends Me
Yesterday on my way to work, I was behind a minivan bearing a slick, professionally manufactured window decal that read:
My daughter play's for
********* **** ***** youth softball
No no no no no! How many people let that slide? How many people failed to notice the apostrophe that turns "play" from a verb to a noun and renders the sentence nonsensical?
As a culture and community, we need to table all efforts to make English the official or only recognized language until we can be assured that most people have a basic grasp of how the language works.
********* **** ***** youth softball
No no no no no! How many people let that slide? How many people failed to notice the apostrophe that turns "play" from a verb to a noun and renders the sentence nonsensical?
As a culture and community, we need to table all efforts to make English the official or only recognized language until we can be assured that most people have a basic grasp of how the language works.
posted by Tinley | 4:05 AM
2 Comments:
Well put. I s'ee so much of that in the blogging world. I've started to stop reading post's that commit such error's.
Timely post. Yesterday I proofed a paper for my nephew, a high school senior. In it, he used "two" instead of "too," but the real kicker was worthy of one of those collections forwarded by English teachers: "CFCs were used as propellants in arousal cans..."
Dear me.
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