Comments on: a fuctionalist turns Prescriptivist http://nonstandardtransmissions.com/blog/posts/16 language perspectives Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:53:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: aw0L http://nonstandardtransmissions.com/blog/posts/16/comment-page-1#comment-380 aw0L Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:21:44 +0000 http://nonstandardtransmissions.com/blog/posts/16#comment-380 OK OK you've wiped off the overtones of condescenscion and annoyance. And the whole thrust of this class was looking beyond the standardization of language. I can really dig that. But damn, seeing so many signs, flyers, memos, and other things where people *just don't get it* on, especially the apostrophe thing, your vs. you're, their vs. they're, etc, really does wear on me. OK OK you’ve wiped off the overtones of condescenscion and annoyance. And the whole thrust of this class was looking beyond the standardization of language. I can really dig that.

But damn, seeing so many signs, flyers, memos, and other things where people *just don’t get it* on, especially the apostrophe thing, your vs. you’re, their vs. they’re, etc, really does wear on me.

]]> By: aw0L http://nonstandardtransmissions.com/blog/posts/16/comment-page-1#comment-379 aw0L Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:08:55 +0000 http://nonstandardtransmissions.com/blog/posts/16#comment-379 Hear hear! Glad to know that someone else cares about the ubiquitous abuse of apostrophes. I'm not the only one who it drives crazy. Hear hear! Glad to know that someone else cares about the ubiquitous abuse of apostrophes. I’m not the only one who it drives crazy.

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