No, it's not a question, just a bit of frivolity while I avoided watching the debate. And, yes, the misuse of the apostrophe in forming plural nouns drives me mad, but I thought it churlish to raise the issue and play grammar monitor with another poster, especially as I find autocorrect often makes me seem either illiterate or losing my cognitive powers. I don't assume that of the "penis's" poster, but it just got me thinking in a lighter mood--needed something to lift my spirits in the midst of the heat and humidity (both on the TV screen and outside). That's all, as Miranda Priestly would say.
By the way, my students are as likely to omit apostrophe's in contractions or possessives as they are to insert them into plurals. Maybe there's some kind of law of conservation of punctuation--they give and take away in equal measure. Or they all seem like they are translating their writing from German (if only!). |
