Jeremy Paxman and the truth of the Apostrophe
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The Parents' Association?
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@beastyboy1990 Well you can with we're and were.
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@JohnPersonage The apostrophe always denotes possession or missing letters, its just that not all possession (like the one you gave an example of) needs an apostrophe.
And I think their point was to show the difference between 'The Parent's Association' and 'The Parent's Association'.
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@ajuk1 I think his point was that you can tell when someone is putting an exclamation mark or a question mark or even a full stop or comma in their speech through their tone of voice. You can't really tell for apostrophes.
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The English language evolves, it has been doing so since the first Germanic peoples arrived in England a thousand years ago. The English we speak nowadays will be very different to the English of a hundred years, and possible incomprehensible to the English of 500 years time. And yes, apostrophes will probably fade in redundancy as part of such evolution.
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"There's not apostrophes in what we're saying." LOL There was two in that sentence, how ironic.
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The English language certainly does have rules, e.g. many ignorant people say "I should OF done it", which is patently incorrect as the conditional perfect tense requires "have" i.e. I should have done it. Possessive: its; Suppression: it´s (it is or it has) hence rules of which there are many. The problem is that many English speakers have no comprehension of their own language.
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The Parents' Association... how hard was that?
and the apostrophe doesn't always denote possession or missing letters.... take "its roof" when referring to a house... no apostrophe... lets face facts... the English language is a hodge podge with hardly any rules and is overly complicated.
7 months ago 2
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Paxo wearing his trippiest shirt.
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The apostrophe isn't redundant. It's people being lazy.
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BennyvilleBlue 2 years ago 10
thisisweird lol,but funny
toptoffee1 3 years ago 6