• fireweed@lemmy.world
    43·
    13 hours ago

    For the love of fuck, we’re using apostrophes to conjugate verbs now too?

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      You have to protect your letter’s from those dangerou’s terminal esse’s!

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      16·
      12 hours ago

      Can’t even blame this one on autocorrect, we’ve gone full apostrophe means “here comes an s”

      • boobs@lemmy.world
        12·
        11 hours ago

        When a rogue 'see’s any enemy who’s low on HP after killing two mob’s

        Fixed the original post’s typos

      • Luccus@feddit.org
        6·
        11 hours ago

        I use the apostrophe whenever I’m too lazy to type the proper letter. Like:

        ‘’‘’’ ‘’‘’’ ‘’‘’ ‘’’ ‘’

        ‘’‘’’ ‘’‘’’ ‘’’ ‘’’ ‘’‘’

        ‘’‘’’ ‘’‘’’ ‘’’ ‘’‘’‘’ ‘’’ ‘’‘’‘’ ‘’’

    • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
      21·
      7 hours ago

      A lot of people aren’t native speakers and also this is an easy error to make even for native speakers.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        1·
        1 hour ago

        It’s not a mistake native speakers would make unintentionally but I absolutely understand the ESL problems and, full disclosure, still have to remind myself about the rules for possessives.

        It looks wrong and the system is wrong I will not apologize for or be bound by the failures of dead dudes

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 hours ago

      In some languages you use an apostrophe for pluralization in some cases. But even that doesn’t make sense for the one in the OP.