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[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (6 children)

For the love of fuck, we're using apostrophes to conjugate verbs now too?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can't even blame this one on autocorrect, we've gone full apostrophe means "here comes an s"

[–] boobs_@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When a rogue 'see's any enemy who's low on HP after killing two mob's

Fixed the original post's typos

[–] Luccus@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I use the apostrophe whenever I'm too lazy to type the proper letter. Like:

''''' ''''' '''' ''' ''

''''' ''''' ''' ''' ''''

''''' ''''' ''' '''''' ''' '''''' '''

BRO! Language! You kiss your mother with that mouth?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

You have to protect your letter's from those dangerou's terminal esse's!

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In some languages you use an apostrophe for pluralization in some cases. But even that doesn't make sense for the one in the OP.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What languages use an apostrophe for plurals?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] TheOctonaut@piefed.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They said language, not dialect. Swamp German doesn't count

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interesting. From a quick look, seems like it only applies to some borrowed words, nothing native to the language?

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Mhm, I can only think of loan words yes.

[–] three@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] three@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Who ever made this it seems like

[–] astutemural@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

Hey, give the guy a break, cult leaders aren't known for their grammar.

(Check OP's username)

[–] teft@piefed.social -1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

A lot of people aren’t native speakers and also this is an easy error to make even for native speakers.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

this is an easy error to make even for native speakers.

Really? "See's"?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I'm pretty sure non native speakers wouldn't make this mistake.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

i've heard native speakers are actually more prone to misusing apostrophes because they learned the sounds before writing, while non natives learn both at the same time

It's not a mistake native speakers would make unintentionally but I absolutely understand the ESL problems and, full disclosure, still have to remind myself about the rules for possessives.

It looks wrong and the system is wrong I will not apologize for or be bound by the failures of dead dudes