tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post874994783789316015..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Potato's, tomato's and tornado's - a job for @SadApostrophe?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-36055869648616623862012-03-19T21:30:55.767+00:002012-03-19T21:30:55.767+00:00Loved this Anne esp the historical part as have ju...Loved this Anne esp the historical part as have just been in combat with an editor who had all sorts of hates esp. capitals - as in the Poison Dart Frog and Okavango Swamps (says herpetologists know nothing of English!)and whether to use the collective plural (my term not his)for lion and elephant or the proper plural. So what about fish then?Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-78646674691060660422012-03-19T15:03:15.136+00:002012-03-19T15:03:15.136+00:00Anything that brings solace to Sad Apostrophe is o...Anything that brings solace to Sad Apostrophe is okay by me! I will tweet this and point it out to him! There is also nothing terribly hard about punctuation. Most people only have to be shown when they're kids in school....it's precisely NOT surgery or rocket science!adelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826710558292792068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-75552916088351645572012-03-19T11:40:23.811+00:002012-03-19T11:40:23.811+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-16733553531398739762012-03-19T11:40:23.364+00:002012-03-19T11:40:23.364+00:00Ooops. seems the keyboard, incensed at the plight ...Ooops. seems the keyboard, incensed at the plight of the apostrophe was doing some kind of punction protest in my post!madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-23802493555357006502012-03-19T11:38:55.141+00:002012-03-19T11:38:55.141+00:00Ah ... if the apostrophe for tomato's etc is t...Ah ... if the apostrophe for tomato's etc is to denote the missing 'e' then there could conceivably be a case for the Olde Englishe Sproutes and Peares - or 'Sprout's and Pear's' ...<br /><br />Still, it;'s sad to learen that the apostrophe has had to go job hunting. Maybe it could take a drop and do holiday cover for the comma, or job share with the semi-colon?madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-9897965372488963282012-03-19T08:35:23.592+00:002012-03-19T08:35:23.592+00:00Language changes over time. Time to dump some of t...Language changes over time. Time to dump some of the more complicated punctuation. Definitely.Anne Cassidynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-83109607661197394182012-03-19T07:36:01.643+00:002012-03-19T07:36:01.643+00:00My late English teacher would have been happy to g...My late English teacher would have been happy to give him a job as "Apostrophe in Residence". Her other job was to teach journalists basic English grammar. It is very obvious which of the older journalists on our state newspaper had the benefit of her teaching!catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.com