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... What's really irritating though, is English speaking people who can't properly write English. Works on my nerves.

Believe me, there are plenty of native English speakers who are highly irritated by this as well!! 🤢 I can help make sure my kids know correct English - whether they choose to use it or not - but that's about as much as I can do. 😔

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Just get rid of contractions all together if you hate the apostrophe so much. It is not that much harder to type do not rather than don't. Personally I don't care at all. Apostrophe typing is automatic to me after years of getting it ground into my brain.

I voted yes.

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This has to be a record for the longest thread about punctuation ever!!!

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Quote from Dr. Love

... What's really irritating though, is English speaking people who can't properly write English. Works on my nerves.

Believe me, there are plenty of native English speakers who are highly irritated by this as well!! 🤢 I can help make sure my kids know correct English - whether they choose to use it or not - but that's about as much as I can do. 😔

I am an English major (recently converted) and it irks me to no end to see so many grammatical and syntactical errors in ACADEMIC writing. However, when perusing most forms of casual correspondence, I am overwhelmingly forgiving when various grammatical and syntactical errors arise, especially in arenas where non-native speakers reside. That said, I myself have been known to drop the occasional comma, semicolon, ellipsis, and yes, the ever so elusive apostrophe. This is casual conversation, and much like the vernacular that is prevalent in different regions, atrocious grammar is prevalent on the internet.

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This is casual conversation, and much like the vernacular that is prevalent in different regions, atrocious grammar is prevalent on the internet.

Yes, if you can imagine that they speak Japanese in Japan, Chinese in China, then just carry over that thought to how people speak online as the language of the internet. I'm okay if folks speak casually online or in everyday life (I consider it an aspect of slang), but when you get down to business (such as academic writing), then get it right! Don't believe that what you can get away with online is correct for serious work.

And as for your comment on academic writing, I wholeheartedly agree. I've read many articles and journals written by scientists and researchers (who supposedly have Masters, PhD's, or MD's) that contain atrocious errors. I guess when you make it that big, you don't have to edit your work.

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Of course! They're crucial. o_o Don't know what you were thinking when you made the thread! D: Apostrophe actually does have a purpose, you know. It's been too ingrained in today's grammar anyways.

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Don't kill the apostrophe!
In fact, that's one of the few things in proper grammar that I rarely mess up. Although, I've been told by several english teachers that contractions shouldn't be used in formal writting. Irronically, that was in high school and now that I'm in college, they tell us we can use them.

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The apostrophe is absolutely necessary, if only just for the sake of the preservation of grammar. The apostrophe serves a purpose, and should not be eliminated merely for the purpose of ease for those who are too lazy to press the shift button.

I am a brand-new college student. I spent most of my life reading, and I somehow got used to the creative and appropriate use of words. Thus, it was a shock to find my professors making awkward and simple grammar mistakes. It's almost as if people have stopped caring about the art of the English language. It's pretty scary.

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What the bloody 'ell?

Obey the rules or don't use the language, boy.

I quite like the apostrophe.
Keep it.

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There are less used punctuations, semi-colons for example...
But they are all parts of this language and should, in my opinion, be retained