It Shouldn't Bug...

But it does, damn it!!!!!

(I'm talking about the inability for people on the interwebz to use a fucking apostrophe appropriately.)

I joke with my students, every year, when we're covering the 3 different ways to use these little gems, that "Apostrophe Abuse" is my biggest pet peeve in.the.world. I even show them this site and they all laugh and laugh and laugh.

Then, I'm perusing various internet sites where people blog, post, tweet, update, etc. and the sheer and utter lack of  knowledge about this particular punctuation mark bugs the ever-loving shit out of me!!!!!!11ZOMGELEVENTY!

I understand, it's the internet, and due to text-speak, the English language has been compressed, recycled, and pretty much mangled into something that vaguely resembles its original form. (And by "original" I mean the language that I use and love...I don't want any language nerds yelling at me.)  I should just let it go.  Hell, this is the second post I've made about this same topic...obviously I think about it a great deal.  I teach this stuff, I should.

The internet--for all of its speed and information--allows for anonymity to facilitate stupidity...and that's just sad. 

Today's PSA is Sponsored By...

The letter "s"!

Just because you put the letter "s" at the end of something doesn't automatically mean it requires an apostrophe!  ARGH!

This is so frustrating to me...I get it, the English language is difficult. We have goofy rules for spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Rarely does anything truly follow a pattern or a rule.  I get it!  But, this whole "adding an apostrophe s" to everything drives me nuts.

Apostrophes = possession.

See?  Not that hard.