Apostrophe crimes

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mcoulson wrote: 13:51 Sun 10 Nov 2024
jdaw1 wrote: 13:37 Sun 10 Nov 2024My food correct. A pedant might suggest that it should be “Alex (pommy42)” rather than “Pommy42 (Alex)”, and “BRPetrie” rather than “BRP”.
For the sake of the well being of any pedant's and that they may sleep well at night I have correcting this hideous organisational offence ..... :lol:
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In Streatham, on Telford Avenue, at ///atom.lifts.couches, on the road:
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Yes, an apostrophe can indicate missing letters. And the word “Roundabout” has been abbreviated by the omission of four letters, all vowels, none of which are where the apostrophe is.
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jdaw1 wrote:In Streatham, on Telford Avenue, at ///atom.lifts.couches, on the road:
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Yes, an apostrophe can indicate missing letters. And the word “Roundabout” has been abbreviated by the omission of four letters, all vowels, none of which are where the apostrophe is.
That did, in fact, make me laugh out loud! For goodness' sake!
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PhilW wrote: 22:08 Tue 12 Nov 2024That did, in fact, make me laugh out loud! For goodness' sake!
Agreed: schoolboy error.
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Schl’by er’rr, surely?
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Alex Bridgeman wrote: 00:30 Wed 13 Nov 2024 Schl’by er’rr, surely?
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In Romania...
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I've been told that the Romanian language doesn't even use a'postrophes.
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Portuguese doesn't use them either. Well, almost doesn't. There are some niche uses.
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MigSU wrote: 17:09 Sat 30 Nov 2024 Portuguese doesn't use them either. Well, almost doesn't. There are some niche uses.
Yes, but Portuguese makes up for its lack of apostrophes by having 12 (ish) accented vowels plus an accented consonant for good measure.

á, é, í, ó, ú, â, ê, ô, ã, õ, à, and rarely ò (though I haven't seen this one yet). And apparently the language used to also have è, ì, and ù.

The consonant is, of course, ç. My understanding is that ñ is only used in Spanish.
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Glenn E. wrote: 20:22 Mon 02 Dec 2024
MigSU wrote: 17:09 Sat 30 Nov 2024 Portuguese doesn't use them either. Well, almost doesn't. There are some niche uses.
Yes, but Portuguese makes up for its lack of apostrophes by having 12 (ish) accented vowels plus an accented consonant for good measure.

á, é, í, ó, ú, â, ê, ô, ã, õ, à, and rarely ò (though I haven't seen this one yet). And apparently the language used to also have è, ì, and ù.

The consonant is, of course, ç. My understanding is that ñ is only used in Spanish.
You are correct on all counts. Impressive.
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Glenn E. wrote: 20:22 Mon 02 Dec 2024The consonant is, of course, ç.
Poças.

The e macron, as in Croft Sērikos, isn’t proper Portuguese.
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What's "fun" is that the only use I've seen (so far) for à is as an abreviation for... "a a". Yes, they shorten 2 x 'a' to just 'à', but only when the two letters are different words.
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