a fuctionalist turns Prescriptivist

Today I lost my mind on Twitter and pointed out some often misused words & punctuation marks. For posterity, I will enumerate them again here, having wiped off the overtones of condescension and annoyance.
1. Apostrophe use: some simple guidelines.

Apostrophes do not mark plural. [...]

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LING 490/590 Presentation Hand-out

to explain the data in the last post:
Ruth E. Cisneros | LING 590 | Formulaic Language
Formulaic Language & Humor:
An overview of idiomatic language usage in comedy
I. Introduction
The initial focus of this paper was to explore the intersection between formulaic [...]