{"id":4727,"date":"2013-11-18T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=4727"},"modified":"2013-10-30T08:01:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T12:01:24","slug":"kill-the-apostrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/11\/18\/kill-the-apostrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill The Apostrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I talked about my enjoyment reading a master of language talk about language<\/a>, I was not actually ascribing to the strange and overly picky arguments that erupt when someone publishes a grammatical error on the web.\u00a0 I kind of ignore all those because they seem pompous even if there are careers and jobs based around them, and they could eventually affect how kids learn language in school.\u00a0 They happen often online and with vehemence, rage and extensive arguments.\u00a0 Sometimes they even result in movements like Kill The Apostrophe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Do we need an apostrophe?\u00a0 Would getting rid of it simply make more our language more complex by making contractions into words of their own right that would evolve separately from their root?\u00a0 Usually changes to language don’t affect the people or understanding of people living during the change, but what about one hundred years from now?\u00a0 Two hundred?\u00a0 Whatever grammar, spelling, and definition changes may happen in my life time, none of them even approach the magnitude of downgrading Pluto’s classification.\u00a0 Pluto, you are still a planet to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I talked about my enjoyment reading a master of language talk about language, I was not actually ascribing to the strange and overly picky arguments that erupt when someone publishes a grammatical error on the web.\u00a0 I kind of ignore all those because they seem pompous even if there are careers and jobs based… Continue reading Kill The Apostrophe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[160,178],"class_list":["post-4727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-language","tag-ranting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4286,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/11\/15\/fsi-language-courses-home\/","url_meta":{"origin":4727,"position":0},"title":"FSI Language Courses – Home","author":"leems","date":"November 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a while since I was immersing myself in language education.\u00a0 I feel bad to have not mastered a language other than English, especially because I find the process of learning another language so fascinating. 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