Apostrophe crimes

[flash_uk]

On Android using the Google Keyboard, switch to number input (hit the ?123 button) then hold down the hyphen to see other options.

Any tips for iOS?

Edit: Ah. Same thing works on iOS! Many thanks!

[Glenn E.]

On Android using the Google Keyboard, switch to number input (hit the ?123 button) then hold down the hyphen to see other options.

Any tips for iOS?

Get a new phone?

[Glenn E.]

The "hills" by my house are over 4,000' (~ 13,000 meters).

Math is hard.

[Andy Velebil]

The "hills" by my house are over 4,000' (~ 13,000 meters).

Math is hard.

Hahha. One too many zeros on that. Damn phone. 1,300 meters. That better?

And the peaks behind that are higher. Though I think Eric in Colorado has us all beat at over 10,000 foot peaks there. Though I have skied at about 13,000 feet in Telluride Colorado and breathing during exertion gets a bit tougher at that elevation


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[Glenn E.]

Mt. Rainier is 14,411.

I've skied at 12,000' in Colorado (Crested Butte). Yeah, the last couple thousand feet make a big difference. Most of the resort is between 9000' and 10,500', but if you go up top and take a couple of those black runs you'll be gasping for breath in no time.

[PhilW]

Mt. Rainier is 14,411.

I've skied at 12,000' in Colorado (Crested Butte). Yeah, the last couple thousand feet make a big difference. Most of the resort is between 9000' and 10,500', but if you go up top and take a couple of those black runs you'll be gasping for breath in no time.

That's nothing; when I was a lad our parents would make my brother and I go t'top of Mount Everest before breakfast, with no Oxygen, or ice axes - or shoes; have a boxing match on the summit and t'loser had to carry t'winner back down while singing God save the Queen, and if we didn't do it quick enough they made us dig our own graves, bury ourselves, and then they would dance on our graves singing Hallelujah. TPF members of today think they have it tough, pah!

[Old Bridge]

Mt. Rainier is 14,411.

I've skied at 12,000' in Colorado (Crested Butte). Yeah, the last couple thousand feet make a big difference. Most of the resort is between 9000' and 10,500', but if you go up top and take a couple of those black runs you'll be gasping for breath in no time.

That's nothing; when I was a lad our parents would make my brother and I go t'top of Mount Everest before breakfast, with no Oxygen, or ice axes - or shoes; have a boxing match on the summit and t'loser had to carry t'winner back down while singing God save the Queen, and if we didn't do it quick enough they made us dig our own graves, bury ourselves, and then they would dance on our graves singing Hallelujah. TPF members of today think they have it tough, pah!

Brilliant!!
MP come alive again.

[Andy Velebil]

Hahahah!


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[jdaw1]

skied at 12,000' in Colorado

Phil’s reprimand was good, and, generously, he even left an error for others to spot. In a thread entitled ‘Apostrophe crimes’ everybody will have noticed Glenn’s incorrect use of a straight single quote (“'”, U+0027) rather than the prime symbol (“′”, U+2032). Tut tut.

[jdaw1]

Thank you

I confess to the omission of a terminating full stop.

[jdaw1]

[flash_uk]

I suspect many others are thinking exactly what I'm thinking after seeing this.

[John Owlett]

Remarkable attention to detail: I have a Casio digital watch exactly like that one.

[flash_uk]

Yes please! Does OBV count as an 'awful shipper's?

[jdaw1]

Yes please! Does OBV count as an 'awful shipper's?

Flash is being hard. In the first post of that thread the theme had included the requirement “no awful shippers”. It could be that Ian was trying to quote, to copy the pluralisation of the original, whilst recognising that the new grammatical context required a singular. It was done clumsily, but I would not have rebuked this — indeed, didn’t.

Maybe I’m just becoming gentle in my dotage.

[idj123]

This was typographical rather than grammatical with the second quotation mark inadvertently being inserted before the 's' rather than after and thus becoming an unintentional apostrophe.

[flash_uk]

I think it would be better to claim that autocorrect inserted the s at the end, as the presence of “an” means shipper must be singular.

[jdaw1]

I think it would be better to claim that autocorrect inserted the s at the end, as the presence of “an” means shipper must be singular.

In the first post of that thread the theme had included the requirement “no awful shippers”. It could be that Ian was trying to quote, to copy the pluralisation of the original

[flash_uk]

I think it would be better to claim that autocorrect inserted the s at the end, as the presence of “an” means shipper must be singular.

In the first post of that thread the theme had included the requirement “no awful shippers”. It could be that Ian was trying to quote, to copy the pluralisation of the original

Yes "no awful shippers" in the first post, but if one then discusses a single bottle, the question would be is it "an awful shipper". Can't have "an awful shippers".

[jdaw1]

He wanted to quote my original.

Yes, I agree, the sentence could have tortured a bit (“would OBV breach “no awful shippers”?”), but I sufficiently sympathetic to the mixed pluralisation from the quotation.

[jdaw1]

It is very unlikely that this is correct:

[Alex Bridgeman]

I think this is debateable. I would have said " readers' " but each of the many true stories would have come from a single individual reader. If that was the case, would the use have been acceptable?

[jdaw1]

I think this is debateable. I would have said " readers' " but each of the many true stories would have come from a single individual reader. If that was the case, would the use have been acceptable?

Unless a single reader supplied all the stories, it’s wrong. Compare: the boys’ oranges: each boy allocated on orange, still, multiple boys.

Consistent with:

It is very unlikely that this is correct

[DRT]

From The Metro's article on Gateshead Council’s ‘smoke screen’ denial about 5G in their street lights, and spectacular in more ways than one...

My dads sisters daughters boyfriend’s sister works in at bewicks and she says its true, she thinks she heard 2 councillors discussing it over chocolate chip muffins.

[jdaw1]

In The Economist!

[jdaw1]

The wines on the night we’re:

[Alex Bridgeman]

I didn’t write that! IOS did. Damn autocorrect.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Remind me, are we allowed to report posts by people who have American English as their first language or is this thread just for the admonishment re-educationof the native English speaker?

[DRT]

Remind me, are we allowed to report posts by people who have American English as their first language or is this thread just for the admonishment re-educationof the native English speaker?

The use of Americanisms should not be reported as they can't help it. Misuse of apostrophes and general grammar crimes should be reported.

The current POTUS is generally excused under the general "he can't help it" rule.

[PhilW]

The current POTUS is generally excused under the general "he can't help it" rule.

"They say I used apostrophys wrong - fake news! Fake news. We have the best apostrophys, they just didnt understand what I said. Fake news, so sad."

[StuartC]

"They say I used apostrophys wrong - fake news! Fake news. We have the best apostrophys, they just didnt understand what I said. Fake news, so sad."

Is it childish to point out there's no "y" in apostrophe/apostrophes; or the missing punctuation in "didn't" when it's clearly a popular representation of a populist representative...?

[PhilW]

"They say I used apostrophys wrong - fake news! Fake news. We have the best apostrophys, they just didnt understand what I said. Fake news, so sad."

Is it childish to point out there's no "y" in apostrophe/apostrophes; or the missing punctuation in "didn't" when it's clearly a popular representation of a populist representative...?

It was, of course, deliberate satire.

[DRT]

"They say I used apostrophys wrong - fake news! Fake news. We have the best apostrophys, they just didnt understand what I said. Fake news, so sad."

Is it childish to point out there's no "y" in apostrophe/apostrophes; or the missing punctuation in "didn't" when it's clearly a popular representation of a populist representative...?

It was, of course, deliberate satire.

Perhaps some random CAPITALIZATION would have made that more bigly Obvious?

[jdaw1]

https://twitter.com/jdaw1/status/1111768924293656576

[jdaw1]

On it's own this is a fruity and flavoursome White Port

[Alex Bridgeman]

On it's own this is a fruity and flavoursome White Port

Embarrasing. Thank you for catching it. Now corrected.

[jdaw1]

Holding Mike to a high standard.

The Monkey is here. He guesses Warre ‘77.

[flash_uk]

Holding Mike to a high standard.

The Monkey is here. He guesses Warre ‘77.

...allowing me to learn that the apostrophe on an iPhone is not where I thought it was!

[DRT]

Evening Standard: Apostrophe society shuts down because 'ignorance and laziness have won'

[jdaw1]

Fussy, I know.

[Alex Bridgeman]

Is this your new career? Driving the family tall truck?

[Andy Velebil]

In fairness, from someone who has had to try to program one of those sign boards on more than one occasion, I can attest they aren't always easy and they don't always allow you to enter things the way you intended. And you shouldn't take pics when you are operating a motor vehicle.

[jdaw1]

In fairness, from someone who has had to try to program one of those sign boards on more than one occasion, I can attest they aren't always easy and they don't always allow you to enter things the way you intended. And you shouldn't take pics when you are operating a motor vehicle.

I was standing on the pavement, waiting for a bus.

Indeed, the Wisemanmobile is being sold for scrap.

[jdaw1]

There is much that could be said about the Trump impeachment. And I realise that this may well be the least of it. Nonetheless:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51408704
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/07/trump-i ... house.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/07/80390441 ... awyer-says

why this country now has one less soldier serving it at the White House

[DRT]

There is much that could be said about the Trump impeachment. And I realise that this may well be the least of it. Nonetheless:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51408704
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/07/trump-i ... house.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/07/80390441 ... awyer-says

why this country now has one less soldier serving it at the White House

Perhaps that mistake should be credited to David Pressman as the news organisations you ave linked to are simply quoting what he said?

[jdaw1]

Perhaps that mistake should be credited to David Pressman as the news organisations you ave linked to are simply quoting what he said?

It was my intention to ‘credit’ David Pressman. The news sources were cited only because I could not find online a definitive original.

[DRT]

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[jdaw1]

It’s not only me.

[PhilW]

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[MigSU]

Inexcusable. It doesn't even make sense, there's no need for an apostrophe anywhere in that sentence.