You can't have too many apostrophe's


Can we talk about this? Is it possible? Or by bringing it up, will I be relegated to that category of individual so many love to hate, the dreadful "grammar n?zi"?

Does it drive anyone else nuts that it seems that more and more adults in this country could evidently not pass a 5th grade English exam?

And is the increasing proliferation of "grocers apostrophes" THE single most annoying element of the above?!
paulfolbrecht
Commcat, you are correct; our standards have dropped absymally low, and we don't seem to care.
We have no choice but to snatch up all of the apostrophes we can now before Harry Pearson gets 'em. As you can readily see by reading his reviews, he purloined the total available supply of commas out there many moons ago.
Here is an appropriate quote regarding this thread for those grammatically correct audiophiles. "It's easy to see, that the crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe".

Frank Zappa
hi doug:

do you have any evidence to confirm your assertions ?

are there any articles in psychology journals, to support your position ?

there are many opinions about the causes of behavior but very few facts to confirm the alleged causes.