Let's Kill the Apostrophe

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ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

sixpackshaker said:
He'll and we'll are improper grammar anyway...
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Not necessarily improper. In formal writing, like essays and contracts, contractions are frowned upon (I've seen professors knock off points for it). But it's not necessarily improper. They're short for "he will" and "we will," so they do work.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

The apostrophe is, in many cases, simply necessary because it separates words. "It's" is two words: IT IS. "Its" is one word. People who fail to see this baffle me.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

Bubble181 said:
The apostrophe is, in many cases, simply necessary because it separates words. "It's" is two words: IT IS. "Its" is one word. People who fail to see this baffle me.
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Well I think the argument would be that things like "read" and "read" are two different words, but we can tell from context which is being used. I'm not advocating their position, mind you, just saying that it isn't necessarily necessary.
 
Covar

Covar

Bubble181 said:
The apostrophe is, in many cases, simply necessary because it separates words. "It's" is two words: IT IS. "Its" is one word. People who fail to see this baffle me.
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To be fair it's (its that is) a member of the 's possession rule's exceptions.
 
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I th'ink we sh'ould ac'tua'lly use m'ore apos'tr'ophes. Y'ou can't av'oid rea'ding th'is wi'th'out p'ausing at the a'pos'troph'es, c'an y'ou?
 
David

David

heyguysithinkallspacesandcapitalizationsareunnecessaryandaribitraryletsgetridofthosetoosowritingiseasierforeveryone.
 
Yoshimickster

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Honestly I don't really care about grammar that much, but getting rid of the apostrophe? If we did that, how would we make alien names sound all weird and cool?
 
tegid

tegid

If the apostrophe was not used in English, alien/fantasyn names with apostrophes would be weirder and cooler, more exotic. So it's for the best, really.
 
Dave

Dave

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I think we should get rid of things like "ough". "Thru" works just as well as "through" and "tru" works just as well as "trough". Wait.

Damn it.
 
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Obligatory:

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like fotograf" 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
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Just Me

Just Me

drawn_inward said:
We should get rid of repetitive letters: k or q, one needs to go. Silent letters need to go. Ph? How about just using an F? :fu:
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Nah, we have this shit now in german. You know how I always cry whenever I read dolfin or amfetamin (only 2 examples I could think of that also work in english)?
 
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