isVeryLoud

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[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If the name ends in an S, you leave a floating apostrophe.

James'

If the name does not end with an S, you place an S after an apostrophe.

Carl's

The only time an S without an apostrophe is valid is when indicating plural. If the noun ends with an S, you do not have to change anything.

Many James

Many Carls

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Eh, as someone with hyperlexia, it's just a bit frustrating trying to read non-standard English. It sometimes takes me a while to figure out what the user actually meant when using the wrong written form of a homophone.

I think it's partially because I don't really hear speech in my head, so the jump from "it's" to "its", for example, is not obvious to me unless I slowly read it out loud.

I know English is a silly language with even sillier rules, but my brain expects it to be written out a certain way and stops parsing if that doesn't happen.

I've definitely blocked at least one person who had extremely poor English on here before, but not out of spite, simply because they brought me no value beyond just wasting my reading time until my brain eventually goes "I can't read this 🙃" and gets frustrated. IIRC they were writing in very abbreviated English with a ton of typos and homophone mistakes.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

I'm assuming it's a joke I'm not getting.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pas depuis 1995

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

C'est très corporatocratique

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You're so fucking welcome

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 months ago (6 children)
[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

Vraiment pas cool ça.

Si le CN veut faire affaire à Montréal, ils doivent se coller aux règlements de la ville. De plus, il s'agit d'une entité privée, ils ne devraient pas avoir le droit de contourner les règlements de la ville.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago

Done! Twenty pats have been delivered directly to Daisy's belly

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry for your loss, hopefully you found another pup to fill the sheltie-shaped hole in your heart!

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