Apostrophes are pointless & we should ditch them but I don't have the fortitude to abide by this belief. Perhaps my greatest moral failing?
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of specific individual words? Yyyyeah but again I think context would usually do that job plenty well.
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Im pretty sure Id just avoid them in most cases. Lets try for a week and see what appens.
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Right. Dont tell me otherwise, I wont believe you. They ground a contraction in its origins too.
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eh I guess people can reasonably differ on this but I don't think my position is, like, gratuitously anti-prescriptivist
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(is english + apostrophies a better vessel for colloquial language than english - apostrophies (where people would write more formally) ? )
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