Apostrophe ban on Devon council's new street names
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Berna Bleeke (X)
Local time: 11:25
English to Dutch
| It's not true | Mar 20, 2013 |
Darnit, I can't find the original article where I read about this. But what actually happened wasn't that they were just going to leave out apostrophes. The idea was to avoid giving new streets names that needed them in the first place.
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| that does sound more sensible | Mar 20, 2013 |
i wondered if that was what they meant but what do we want punctuation for anyway it just confuses everyone
in the old days i believe they alsowrotethewordstogetherwithoutspaces but i think the spaces at least were an improvement
my mother sometimes maintained that if stone age people were able to survive at all then they must have been much more intelligent than we were in the 20th century and the human race has been degenerating ever since
so now we have ... See more i wondered if that was what they meant but what do we want punctuation for anyway it just confuses everyone
in the old days i believe they alsowrotethewordstogetherwithoutspaces but i think the spaces at least were an improvement
my mother sometimes maintained that if stone age people were able to survive at all then they must have been much more intelligent than we were in the 20th century and the human race has been degenerating ever since
so now we have reached the point where even apostrophes are too difficult for some people
she would have chortled over this story ▲ Collapse
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XXXphxxx (X) 
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:25
Portuguese to English
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 11:25
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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If "Baker View" has no apostrophe, why are people so angry when "Bakers View" doesn't have one either?
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 11:25
Spanish to English
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Samuel Murray wrote:
If "Baker View" has no apostrophe, why are people so angry when "Bakers View" doesn't have one either?
Because thanks to careful grooming by publications such as the Daily Mail a large section of the population are in a permanent state of hair-trigger apoplexy, ready to explode at the the slightest sign of what they perceive as further degeneration of society.
[Edited at 2013-03-21 08:30 GMT]
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:25
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Samuel Murray wrote: If "Baker View" has no apostrophe, why are people so angry when "Bakers View" doesn't have one either?
Bakers only view when they're watching TV.
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| Spaces between words.. | Mar 22, 2013 |
Christine Andersen wrote:
in the old days i believe they alsowrotethewordstogetherwithoutspaces but i think the spaces at least were an improvement
Hey, they are still doing that in Germany... smiles
Steve K.
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Giles Watson
Italy
Local time: 11:25
Italian to English
In memoriam | Boustrophedon | Mar 22, 2013 |
Christine Andersen wrote:
in the old days i believe they alsowrotethewordstogetherwithoutspaces but i think the spaces at least were an improvement
WORSETHANTHATCHRISTINESOMEANCIENTPEOPLES
CNIETIRWOTDESUSKEERGEHTDNASETITTIHEHTEKIL
APITALSWITHNOSPACESLEFTTORIGHTANDTHENRIGH
NOITAUTCNUPONHTIWSENILETANRETLANOTFELOTT
[Edited at 2013-03-22 15:16 GMT]
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| Donttelltheclients | Mar 22, 2013 |
Giles Watson wrote: Christine Andersen wrote:
in the old days i believe they alsowrotethewordstogetherwithoutspaces but i think the spaces at least were an improvement
WORSETHANTHATCHRISTINESOMEANCIENTPEOPLES CNIETIRWOTDESUSKEERGEHTDNASETITTIHEHTEKIL APITALSWITHNOSPACESLEFTTORIGHTANDTHENRIGH NOITAUTCNUPONHTIWSENILETANRETLANOTFELOTT [Edited at 2013-03-22 15:16 GMT]
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| what, not who | Mar 24, 2013 |
The article ends with the comment “However, it declined to comment further and did not elaborate on who might be confused by the use of correct punctuation.”
This, of course, is asking the wrong question. It is not a who, but a what, that is being confused by apostrophes. The apostrophe is one of a small number of punctuation marks that routinely confuses computers (or rather poorly written software…).
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