chunes@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 days agoWhat are your grammar bugbears?message-squaremessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down12
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minus-squareDenjin@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 days agoThis cafe I mean I try not to be a dick about spelling and grammar and stuff these days, but come on!
minus-square200ok@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 hours agoI feel this way when people reference decades like, “it was acceptable in the 80’s”. If anything, the apostrophe should be in front to denote the year being truncated: '80s
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoIt could be owned by an entity called Sutton Snax. That probably isn’t what they’re going for, but it could be read that way. Now, x-apostrophe might be (more?) correct in that instance but it’s far more forgivable than any interpretation as a plural.
This cafe
I mean I try not to be a dick about spelling and grammar and stuff these days, but come on!
I feel this way when people reference decades like, “it was acceptable in the 80’s”.
If anything, the apostrophe should be in front to denote the year being truncated: '80s
It could be owned by an entity called Sutton Snax. That probably isn’t what they’re going for, but it could be read that way.
Now, x-apostrophe might be (more?) correct in that instance but it’s far more forgivable than any interpretation as a plural.