chunes@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 days agoWhat are your grammar bugbears?message-squaremessage-square62linkfedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down12
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minus-squareDenjin@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·8 days agoThis cafe I mean I try not to be a dick about spelling and grammar and stuff these days, but come on!
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 days agoIt could be owned by an entity called Sutton Snax. That probably isn’t what they’re going for, but it could be read that way. Now, x-apostrophe might be (more?) correct in that instance but it’s far more forgivable than any interpretation as a plural.
minus-square200ok@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoI feel this way when people reference decades like, “it was acceptable in the 80’s”. If anything, the apostrophe should be in front to denote the year being truncated: '80s
This cafe
I mean I try not to be a dick about spelling and grammar and stuff these days, but come on!
It could be owned by an entity called Sutton Snax. That probably isn’t what they’re going for, but it could be read that way.
Now, x-apostrophe might be (more?) correct in that instance but it’s far more forgivable than any interpretation as a plural.
I feel this way when people reference decades like, “it was acceptable in the 80’s”.
If anything, the apostrophe should be in front to denote the year being truncated: '80s