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Apostrophes

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  • #32
    Diapason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Diapason


    Don't get me started on loose instead of lose.


  • #33
    Royal Legend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,697 ✭✭✭Royal Legend


    optimistic_ wrote: »
    I wanna know how to use a comma properly, please!?

    The standard one or the Oxford one? :eek:

    And is bollock's's really two so its really balls or ball's, now I am confused


  • #34
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭mathepac


    where vs were
    should of vs should have
    there vs their, they're and vice versa
    gotten vs got
    !!!! vs .
    ..... vs .

    and so on ...


  • #35
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I honestly couldn't give two fuck's.


  • #36
    Gbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    bluewolf wrote: »
    No, you can't. It is possessive in most cases, but not with "it". It's always = it is.

    Then how do you denote possession with "it"? "Its"?
    There's no logical reasoning behind it that I can see. Whether you use "its" or "it's" to denote possession, context makes it obvious that you're neither referring to the plural of "it" or to "it is".

    Either way, the english language is an absolute load of self-contradictory, inconsistent bollocks. It has to be to be useful to so many different cultures.

    Give me French or Spanish every day. Once you get beyond the nonsense of applying genders to tables it's really not so bad.


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  • #37
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    : & ; <
    what's the point of colons?


  • #38
    Royal Legend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,697 ✭✭✭Royal Legend


    is it nazis or Nazi's, also should N(n)azi always start with a capital N? Or is that alway's, ..............


  • #39
    Diapason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Diapason


    westendgirlie wrote: »
    : & ; <
    what's the point of colons?

    Digestion.


  • #40
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    theholyghost wrote: »
    I know nobody likes a grammar Nazi

    Your right they're.


  • #41
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,372 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    The correct term is "up in the air comma thingamy", not apostrophe.


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  • #42
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    Diapason wrote: »
    Digestion.

    Ah, I see said the blindman :confused:


  • #43
    Washington Irving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Washington Irving


    One that annoys me more is people not knowing the difference between 'then' and 'than'


  • #44
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Gbear wrote: »
    Give me French or Spanish every day. Once you get beyond the nonsense of applying genders to tables it's really not so bad.

    But the gender thing throws up conundrums all of it's own - for example, would the Spanish equivalent of Boards be Las Boards or Los Boards?

    And who decides if Boards is male or female?


  • #45
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    mike65 wrote: »
    Has anybody actually read Eats Shoots & Leaves?
    No, but I've read Eats, Shoots & Leaves.


  • #46
    Diapason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Diapason


    westendgirlie wrote: »
    Ah, I see said the blindman :confused:

    Colon


  • #47
    Diapason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Diapason


    Colin


  • #48
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,450 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    The one that does my head in the most is using "then" instead of "than".

    Eg: I'm taller then you.

    No no, you're taller THAN me.


  • #49
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,372 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Diapason wrote: »
    Colin

    ...and then there's semi-Colin, or limp-dick as he's normally known.


  • #50
    Ah_Yeah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭Ah_Yeah


    I do'nt know whats' going on here.


  • #51
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    First world problems.

    Can, we, also, please, discuss, the, use, of ; ?


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  • #52
    Miller Spicy Flick
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Miller Spicy Flick


    Gbear wrote: »
    Then how do you denote possession with "it"? "Its"?

    yep


  • #53
    Funglegunk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭Funglegunk


    bluewolf wrote: »
    http://www.angryflower.com/aposter3.jpg

    And:

    http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe


  • #54
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Dean09 wrote: »
    The one that does my head in the most is using "then" instead of "than".

    Eg: I'm taller then you.

    No no, you're taller THAN me.

    It's clearly a short way of saying,

    "I'm taller, then you're the next tallerer."

    It'd look weird if I was to write,

    "I'm tallest, then you're the next taller."

    Your problem is you're short though. Shorties always have a complex.


  • #55
    Diapason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Diapason


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    It'd look weird if I was to write,

    If I were... :)


  • #56
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,424 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Diapason wrote: »
    If I were...

    Or "am," even. :)


  • #57
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    bluewolf wrote: »
    here you go

    http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm

    I feel like I am 7 years old and back in primary school all over again :D


  • #58
    PK2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭PK2008


    theholyghost wrote: »
    I know nobody likes a grammar Nazi and you are not allowed to criticise someone in a thread for grammar etc. but the whole apostrophe thing is driving me mad.

    Nobody seems to know how to use them and it is geting worse and worse.

    One does NOT put an apostrophe after a singular word and before the S to make it a plural hence it is "boards.ie" NOT "board's.ie".

    This particular problem seems to be spreading like wildfire accross the internet. Boards seems to be the worst.

    There is even some joker on another forum complaining about the quality of "CV's" being sent to them. Are you really one to judge?

    I'll be sure to watch my p's and q's around you OP........;)


  • #59
    sebastianlieken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,778 ✭✭✭sebastianlieken


    .... .- .. .--- ..- ... - .-- .- ... - . -.. -.-- --- ..- .-. - .. -- . :D


  • #60
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Teacher, where do question marks go!


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  • #61
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Knew a lad who had arse cancer, he only has a semi-colon now


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