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Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:23 Tue 24 May 2016
by jdaw1
Tricky. Too many layers: ‘skinny’ must bind to ‘fries’ more tightly than the pair does to ‘team’, which must bind more tightly to the pair than to ‘special’. Obviously the correct answer is a re-word, but failing that, the punctuation is tricky.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 01:29 Thu 26 May 2016
by DRT
jdaw1 wrote:Tricky. Too many layers: ‘skinny’ must bind to ‘fries’ more tightly than the pair does to ‘team’, which must bind more tightly to the pair than to ‘special’. Obviously the correct answer is a re-word, but failing that, the punctuation is tricky.
"A special order of skinny fries for the team" requires no such complexity.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:42 Mon 30 May 2016
by jdaw1
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 17:13 Tue 31 May 2016
by Glenn E.
I have apparently purged most of the memory in self defense, but I saw a sign on the road that managed to make multiple errors with a single misplaced apostrophe.
As I recall the word in question ended in 's' and so appeared to need to have the apostrophe after the 's' for plural possessive. The problem being twofold: a) this was one of those other words that ends in 's' that needs to have an apostrophe and an 's' added, and b) in the usage on the sign the word was neither plural nor possessive.
I really wish I could remember the whole sign. It was spectacularly bad.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 18:52 Tue 31 May 2016
by jdaw1
Can it be found on Google’s streetview?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 20:46 Wed 01 Jun 2016
by Glenn E.
jdaw1 wrote:Can it be found on Google’s streetview?
Likely not. It was the same type of sign as is most often used for political purposes (i.e. non-permanent). Roughly 11 x 17 and stuck in the ground by its wire frame.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 20:55 Thu 09 Jun 2016
by jdaw1
Re: RE: Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 09:00 Fri 10 Jun 2016
by PhilW
Please clarify the accusation. I would expect "some people's keyboards" as appears currently written (it may have been corrected?) for the keyboards of some people; by comparison "some people's faiths" (the faiths of some people) vs "some peoples' faiths" (the faiths of some peoples) both being different and valid.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 10:47 Fri 10 Jun 2016
by jdaw1
PhilW wrote:Please clarify the accusation.
Their was an error.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 10:47 Fri 10 Jun 2016
by jdaw1
A shop near East Croydon station, 13th March 2016.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 13:08 Fri 10 Jun 2016
by PhilW
jdaw1 wrote:Their was an error.
Ah, their was indeed. I was too apostrophe-focused.
The "2016 Timeless Collection"... oh dear.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 14:01 Sat 18 Jun 2016
by CaliforniaBrad
While not specifically relating to punctuation, this seems to fit the thread:
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Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 17:22 Sat 18 Jun 2016
by jdaw1
He did play for the
Charleston RiverDogs, so maybe.
Or maybe not.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 13:40 Mon 20 Jun 2016
by Alex Bridgeman
Probably typed on an Apple and autocorrected
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 10:39 Wed 22 Jun 2016
by jdaw1
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 14:39 Wed 29 Jun 2016
by jdaw1
Serralves.pt wrote:This first exhibition in Portugal of influential New York-based British artist Liam Gillick (1964, Aylesbury, UK) results from a series of site visits to the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art made since 2013. The subsequent exhibition takes the form of a year-long presentation and reflects Gillick’s long-standing engagement with questions of process, participation, collectivity and decision-making, and of which his varied approach to language and the language of space are an expression.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 19:57 Wed 29 Jun 2016
by flash_uk
jdaw1 wrote:Serralves.pt wrote:This first exhibition in Portugal of influential New York-based British artist Liam Gillick (1964, Aylesbury, UK) results from a series of site visits to the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art made since 2013. The subsequent exhibition takes the form of a year-long presentation and reflects Gillick’s long-standing engagement with questions of process, participation, collectivity and decision-making, and of which his varied approach to language and the language of space are an expression.
I've re-read this a couple of times and can't find the problem. Can you enlighten me?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 21:41 Wed 29 Jun 2016
by Glenn E.
flash_uk wrote:jdaw1 wrote:Serralves.pt wrote:This first exhibition in Portugal of influential New York-based British artist Liam Gillick (1964, Aylesbury, UK) results from a series of site visits to the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art made since 2013. The subsequent exhibition takes the form of a year-long presentation and reflects Gillick’s long-standing engagement with questions of process, participation, collectivity and decision-making, and of which his varied approach to language and the language of space are an expression.
I've re-read this a couple of times and can't find the problem. Can you enlighten me?
I believe the apostrophe before the 'n' is wrong. I'm not a true linguist so do not know the correct names, but both should be a straight apostrophe and not a curled apostrophe. At the very least they should both be the comma-style curled apostrophe, not the upside down one, as the letter 'n' is not being encapsulated by them. Both represent a missing letter.
Close enough?
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 22:39 Wed 29 Jun 2016
by flash_uk
Ah, yes.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:38 Wed 29 Jun 2016
by jdaw1
Glenn E. wrote:I believe the apostrophe before the 'n' is wrong. I'm not a true linguist so do not know the correct names, but both should be a straight apostrophe and not a curled apostrophe. At the very least they should both be the comma-style curled apostrophe, not the upside down one, as the letter 'n' is not being encapsulated by them. Both represent a missing letter.
Close enough?
Both should be right single apostrophes, also known as ‘9’s. For the reason you say.
Separately, “engagement with questions of process, participation, collectivity and decision-making”, in this context and perhaps in others, is pretentious nonsense. Which our Artist-in-Residence might think good. Or at least might wish that we participants, collectively and decisively whilst following due process, engage with its questions.
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 11:28 Sat 02 Jul 2016
by jdaw1
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 00:25 Sat 09 Jul 2016
by DRT
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 23:58 Sat 09 Jul 2016
by Alex Bridgeman
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 00:00 Sun 10 Jul 2016
by DRT
AHB wrote:
Guilty as charged.
To be fair, I am told that the salad was in good spirits before being eaten
Re: Apostrophe crimes
Posted: 11:32 Sun 10 Jul 2016
by jdaw1
There is (or, more accurately, hopefully will be) a list of banks, called the ‘Preliminary List’. Would you say that a bank is on the Preliminary List, or in the Preliminary List?