Apostrophe

Its time to abolish the apostrophe. This poor little punctuation mark has been abused, neglected, contorted into unnatural positions. It is a tattered remnant of its former self, and deserves to be put peacefully to sleep.

You don't have to be a Mensa member to figure this one out. Pic: AP

So let’s give it a dignified end, and save it from further pain.

Where it was once the greengrocers’ prerogative to enslave apostrophes and bend them to their evil will (tomato’s, anyone?) the cancer has spread, and the apostrophe is beyond saving.

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  • Utopia Boy says:

    02:18pm | 02/11/11

    What’s wrong with writing and understanding punctuation correctly? Why, if something takes more than ten minutes to learn, does it have to be discarded? Laziness is not an excuse to change the English language. Regardless of what the pro “drop the apostrophe” brigade think, there probably will never be a… Read more »

  • Joan Bennett says:

    07:49am | 02/11/11

    Just go back to teaching properly at school.  Whole generations coped with spelling, grammar and punctuation fine.  I assume this changed because the teaching method changed.  What other reason could there be?  Perhaps some sort of government conspiracy to make literate people freak out?? Read more »

 

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