You can't have too many apostrophe's


Can we talk about this? Is it possible? Or by bringing it up, will I be relegated to that category of individual so many love to hate, the dreadful "grammar n?zi"?

Does it drive anyone else nuts that it seems that more and more adults in this country could evidently not pass a 5th grade English exam?

And is the increasing proliferation of "grocers apostrophes" THE single most annoying element of the above?!
paulfolbrecht
The fact is that in some impoverished third-world nations the quality of grade-school education is far superior to that offered in the USA. America has become the collective voice of indifference with regard to education. Instead we import educated people on time-limited visas to fill our job vacancies. Educated citizens are the exports of nations such as India, Cuba and Haiti and their use and interpretation of the English language will affect our adoption of common-use. As far as the correct grammar and punctuation go, correct as to whose interpretation?? China has more English speaking citizens than the US and Canada combined. Add the peculiar syntax and expression common in India's English to China's contribution to our language and what we write today may be construed in the near future as a vestige of Olde English.
Commcat, you are correct; our standards have dropped absymally low, and we don't seem to care.
We have no choice but to snatch up all of the apostrophes we can now before Harry Pearson gets 'em. As you can readily see by reading his reviews, he purloined the total available supply of commas out there many moons ago.
Here is an appropriate quote regarding this thread for those grammatically correct audiophiles. "It's easy to see, that the crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe".

Frank Zappa