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QuikSand
03-13-2006, 03:57 PM
The good people of FOFC have actually written each of the following words as plurals:

rationale's
hand's
restaurant's
employee's
messup's
birthday's
one's


Please. Stop. Please.
Draft Dodger
03-13-2006, 03:57 PM
I likes all of quiksands posts
VPI97
03-13-2006, 03:58 PM
You always have good grammar tip's
sachmo71
03-13-2006, 03:59 PM
its a shame
Senator
03-13-2006, 03:59 PM
The good people of FOFC have actually written each of the following words as plurals:

rationale's
hand's
restaurant's
employee's
messup's
birthday's
one's


Please. Stop. Please.


This pet peeve will be with you always.
sachmo71
03-13-2006, 03:59 PM
when i buy something, it becomes chriss
Draft Dodger
03-13-2006, 04:00 PM
if enough people use apostrophes, does it become a pluarity even if it's to provide plurality?
SnDvls
03-13-2006, 04:00 PM
but if my hand's finger is resting on the restaurant's chair, Rationale's, and an employee's apron brushes up against me would that be okay to use it then?
Klinglerware
03-13-2006, 04:00 PM
You aren't Swedish, are you?
Coder
03-13-2006, 04:06 PM
but if my hand's finger is resting on the restaurant's chair, Rationale's, and an employee's apron brushes up against me would that be okay to use it then?


Took the words right out of my mouth.
Raven Hawk
03-13-2006, 04:27 PM
It depends . . . Was the person talking about a particular employee's benefits or the all of the employees' benefits. Or was it just talk of having many employees working for the company. Employees can be possesive.
Fonzie
03-13-2006, 04:37 PM
This is my biggest writing pet peeve as well. But what absolutely kills me is when I see this grammatical crime being committed by journalists (as I saw on my local TV news coverage last night - a complete failure to distinguish between "its" and "it's").

Those folks should be shot.
Poli
03-13-2006, 04:42 PM
Jerry Rice was a great wide reciever.
Maple Leafs
03-13-2006, 04:49 PM
This sort of thing literally kills me.
st.cronin
03-13-2006, 04:49 PM
Jerry Rice was a great wide reciever.

I think you mean "Phil Plantier was great wide reciever's."
Crapshoot
03-13-2006, 04:51 PM
I think Quicksand like's Billy Joel. :D
flere-imsaho
03-13-2006, 04:52 PM
You may be right. I may be crazy.
Glengoyne
03-13-2006, 05:22 PM
If I have to live with what should be the depricated usage of "an historic", then you have to live with people'sscrew ups. The fact that your complaining about an actual grammatic error, and I'm bitching about my sense that an acceptable usage should be changed, doesn't matter to me. Buck Up.
Raiders Army
03-13-2006, 05:30 PM
The good people of FOFC have actually written each of the following words as plurals:

rationale's
hand's
restaurant's
employee's
messup's
birthday's
one's


Please. Stop. Please.

With only one please, I would ignore you stupid computer-guy. With two please's I will listen to your whinyness.
MJ4H
03-13-2006, 05:43 PM
This sort of thing literally kills me.

One of the more painful concessions I have witnessed in my lifetime was the addition of the definition "virtually" to the entry for "literally" in Merriam-Webster.

:mad:
Draft Dodger
03-13-2006, 05:44 PM
This sort of thing literally kills me.

definitely
Poli
03-13-2006, 05:49 PM
Your in an abandoned ruin...
samifan24
03-13-2006, 05:51 PM
eats shoots and leaves