Reading the title, you'd probably think that this was going to be some massive rant about how people SHOULD be getting their grammar right, let alone just the use of apostrophes, and how we could soon see the English language being completely disregarded. If you're thinking this, you'd be wrong. This is a blog post in which I will, effectively, concede a minor defeat, and let the world keep going in the direction it seems to want to be taking (ie Majorly downhill...with flames and spikes. Yeah.)
For a while now it's been brought to my attention that the context in which apostrophes are used, by most people, is completely wrong. It's almost as though their thought is that you may as well chuck one in at a random point, and hope that it makes you look like a more literate human being than your peers. Well it doesn't - because most of the time, it's completely incorrect. But anyway, like I said, this isn't about the ranting, it's about conceding a (partial) defeat. Me being quite ridiculously stuck up for a 16 year old, and arrogant in my Nazi-like way of dealing with grammar is not going to be enough to get the situation to improve. So should I keep going? No. I'll just annoy people even more than I already do. On the flipside, should the apostrophe related failings keep going? No. How can this be eradicated? It's quite simple really...we just get rid of the apostrophe altogether. Abolish that little bastard, and the problem disappears (theoretically). Does this make me happy? No, but it's a compromise, and compromises will inevitably have to be made at some point.
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