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I've studied the blade
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For the love of fuck, we're using apostrophes to conjugate verbs now too?
Hey, give the guy a break, cult leaders aren't known for their grammar.
(Check OP's username)
Can't even blame this one on autocorrect, we've gone full apostrophe means "here comes an s"
Fixed the original post's typos
I use the apostrophe whenever I'm too lazy to type the proper letter. Like:
''''' ''''' '''' ''' ''
''''' ''''' ''' ''' ''''
''''' ''''' ''' '''''' ''' '''''' '''
...''''''?..
,,,^..^,,,
>^,^<
BRO! Language! You kiss your mother with that mouth?
You have to protect your letter's from those dangerou's terminal esse's!
Who ever made this it seems like
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.
What languages use an apostrophe for plurals?
Ligmanese
Ligmanese?
Ligma nese nuts
:^)
Dutch for example.
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They said language, not dialect. Swamp German doesn't count
Interesting. From a quick look, seems like it only applies to some borrowed words, nothing native to the language?
Mhm, I can only think of loan words yes.
A lot of people aren’t native speakers and also this is an easy error to make even for native speakers.
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
Really? "See's"?
I'm pretty sure non native speakers wouldn't make this mistake.
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