I think we have no need for it these days. With the introduction of computers and texting on mobiles we have no need for it now.
what do you think?
2007-02-08 23:05:13 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Have you never seen the Jonathan Creek episode called Ghosts Forge? He only manages to solve the mystery due to the lack of an apostrophe between the t and the s, respectively, in Ghosts. So as you can see, the apostrophe is required in order to make television compulsive viewing... you are so right, lets get rid of the damn thing. Would make writing books easier too. I might actually be able to shift myself to send my stuff to an agent without the fear of them turning away my work due to the unusual places I put my apostrophes.
Death to the apostrophe! The bane of my future career.
2007-02-08 23:22:32 · answer #1 · answered by Katri-Mills 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i'm getting aggravated via undesirable punctuation. it rather is merely yet another occasion of dumbing down at its worst. How can an apostrophe interior the wonderful place reason confusion. the full element of punctuation is to make clean the meaning of words. i replaced into bemused to work out a T shirt the different day proclaiming ' Brunettes' do it extra effective' Brunettes' what? i'm nevertheless no longer clean approximately this.
2016-11-02 23:29:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with FRAN1 - but we should also have a "Know how to use your apostrophe" day, as many people keep putting them in plurals (or plural's - which is wrong). Apostrophes are used in words to show something belongs to someone - "Pete's glove" or "Helen's sister" - & this should be taught more in schools, as it seems to be the most noticeable mistake in the English language.
2007-02-08 23:24:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Assuming you meant "Should we ..." :
I say "No we shouldn't. It's useful."
Abolishing the apostrophe implies also abolishing contractions. I don't think that would be useful (although mothers in labor might disagree).
Furthermore, how would you handle possessive pronouns? For example, "what do you think of this person's opinion?" would have to be re-written as, "What do you think of the opinion of this person?" - which is not only cumbersome, but also somewhat less clear. Ain't that right?
2007-02-08 23:20:25 · answer #4 · answered by BlueFeather 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely not!
Might as well throw out the word "contraction" while you are at it.
However, here are some sites which talk about the abolishment.
2007-02-08 23:14:39 · answer #5 · answered by lou53053 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I go along with everyone else so far. Shall we start a campaign "Keep the Apostrophe" ?
2007-02-08 23:18:09 · answer #6 · answered by FRAN1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
who's to say. whose decision is it anyways?
I'm fine with away with it, I am really.
But how would you type "Charles' name is Charles"?
The poor apostrophe, nobody's owning up to its power. I feel it will always have a place in language, don't you? Simply doing away with it because the lunk heads you converse with are incapable of mastering its use, well, it's preposterous!
2007-02-08 23:28:40 · answer #7 · answered by sparkletina 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
considering that an apostrophe can change the sound and meaning of words I believe this is a proposterous idea.
2007-02-08 23:09:53 · answer #8 · answered by Smarty 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The English language is bad enough nowadays without scrapping punctuation.
2007-02-09 02:43:17 · answer #9 · answered by Merovingian 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Looks like you have abolished the letter 'W'
2007-02-09 00:23:24 · answer #10 · answered by jmbsrbmar 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋