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Isn't that apostrophe possessive? Shouldn't it have been Xs? Not a native English speaker, so just asking.
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023
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I hate being pedantic but misuse of apostrophes drives me crazy for some reason...
It's not The ABC's, it's The ABCs..
It's not The 90's, it's The 90s or The '90s..
The usage rules are so simple and it never involves pluralization
The usage rules are so simple and it never involves pluralization
Mmmm, it's and its would like a word with you. Not pluralization but definitely the one that makes it less than simple.
Also, the other weird one is words/names that already end in 's'
Like if Mr Jones owns something, that's Mr Jones' car
Yeah that's fair. It's mainly the unnecessary addition of the apostrophe that irks me..especially with acronyms.
Jones' and Jones's are both correct though! The latter just looks stupid even though we pronounce the extra S regardless
I did not know Jones's was valid actually! And honestly, I learned that rule from level names in Ty the Tasmanian tiger, like "Cass' Pass" when I thought they fucked up as a kid.
Mainly just was adding on! I'm similar when I learn rules like that or when I finally nailed the 'to' vs 'too' thing, I tend to also get irked by their misuses after I get them down
What a stupid stupid move. “Tweet” is in the dictionary, it’s people’s standard vocab word for any kind of short post.
It’s like if Johnson & Johnson decided to rename Band-Aid to strips. Why would you lose decades of advertising and free advertising by people using your name?
Yes but X cool letter. If X lose much dollar at least X still cool letter.
X is my least favourite letter because it's literally synonymous with to much in math/computer science and other fields. Heck it even exists in the social media space as a xposting (crossposting)
What a lazy fucking response by this dumbshit. Just an absolute spacetime-warping black hole of creativity, sucking in everything clever and good around him and allowing nothing back out past the event horizon of his ineptitude.
- I saw your X
- what? Where? I didn't see my ex yesterday.
- what?
- what?
WHAT'S THIS ABOUT EGGS
- No I reXed your X
- Oh boy, in for a ride then
Who's on first?
Xcrements.. "They Xcreted it on X" sounds appropriate.
Well, you'd previously tweet it. Now you'd exit.
Imagine this from a branding perspective. Everyone calls them tweets. Nobody calls them posts. And they want to throw that away.
I'm going to absolutely say that someone xed out an x. I'm also pronouncing the name of the company as ten. I'm also going to be correcting anyone that calls it Twitter.
Just say you xeeted something or someone. (Pronounced "skeeted")
You're full of xeet.
What but it woild be pronounced 'zeeted'... Don't go breaking the rules of x now
I'll x you tomorrow
Considering his naming history we should be relieved it's just X and not X#15n🐙...
I'm simply gonna keep calling it twitter and tweets.
Best of both worlds. Big manbaby will get annoyed and I don't do anything differently!
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