Posted on 03/06/2018 7:00:56 PM PST by huckfillary
It really is surprising how often an unneeded apostrophe is used for a simple plural word. It's seen on FR pretty often. I think some of it is just reflexive to stick an apostrophe before an "s" since we have to show the possessive so often, but some of it is probably not reflexive.
That’s a good point about misspellings in news today (including on TV news); I didn’t connect it to spell check, but rather staffers who simply didn’t read for recreation (and thus were exposed to far fewer words than people years ago). In screening potential hires, employers should just ask them to write a paragraph (about anything). It was eye-opening for me to realize people who spoke poor English spell the same way; I had assumed it was just laziness. It seems some departments have a “scribe” - the employee who has the ability to write letters, emails, etc. properly.
You’d be shocked at how many people today don’t have a single book in their homes.
hugh and series.../s
Or abbreviating the word “people.” I see ppl doing that all the time. Saves, what, 0.005 seconds?
Has English ever not been “deteriorating”? Or, perhaps more accurately, “evolving”?
“Marshall law”...
... is that kinda like “Cardinal sin”?
English is difficult to learn (compared to the Romance languages, for example) because it is a mixture of various influences. In Spanish, the letter “a” always has the same sound, while we have “a” as in “Kate”, “Cat”, “Caught”, “Cart”...so many exceptions. Spanish has few exceptions to the rule that each letter ALWAYS has the same sound.
Shtart
Shtrike
Shtruggle
Shtrange
This lazy ghetto Ebonics has crossed all racial and ethnic lines and really p*sses me off!!!!
I even heard a young male Caucasian journalist say "SHTUDY" today, ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Ask used as a noun. Ugh.
In the ‘80s, I didn’t see errors in “the media” - papers, mags, anything.
What does the former Archbishop of Manila have to do with it. :)
Word spell checker took care of this two decades ago.
Loosers /s
Or myself for either of those, inappropriately. Which is very, very common.
Read what so-called journalists write.
oy vey !
you have to axe?
My husband and I were appalled at the errors we found in our daughters’ annuals. There were misspelled words, poor grammar, typographical errors and all of it just leaped off the pages to us. We couldn’t understand why none of the advisors had caught the errors before printing.
Peach
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