I really hate apostrophes, they really hurt my head, I am good with most of them but from time to time, I just glitch I think! For example If I want to say—I answered the kids questions.—Should it be kids or kids'? Do people still care about apostrophes after the s anymore? it is not something I see very often when I am reading. Anyway thoughts on kids or kids' appreciated
One kid - kid's. Two or more - kids'. Most people don't seem to care about anything concerning language anymore. Most often apostrophes are used where they aren't necessary ('Try our taco's!")
I'm no apostrophe gestapo, but I do like to stick to the rules when I can, problem is I learnt the rules 30 years ago then never wrote a word after leaving school. Yet now I find myself in the strange position as a Beta reader for a number of authors. I want to do the best job I can for them, and whilst I know it is not my job to police their grammar I like to think I help even a little. Thanks for the answer, that was what I had assumed but I wanted to be sure!
You can always look up grammar rules online when necessary. Try googling for apostrophe rules. It's an extremely good idea to do that whenever you run across something you don't really know. Now we care a lot more about the rules of grammar then we did when we were kids, since most of us want to improve our writing abilities, so we work harder to remember and use them properly. After a while your writing will improve pretty dramatically as a result.
We should get rid of genitive apostrophes. Paper is no longer a premium storage medium trusted to trained scribes and needing to be conserved. And in digital media having a little mark instead of a letter doesn't save any ink, or a key-press. So let's go back to writing out all the letter es e's ees that they're placeholding for (probably thanks to some crackpot decision by an 18th Century standardizer) Literacy would improve overnight. Children would be cheaper to educate. Typing would be faster. Proofreaders' eyes would last longer. It would be the doges bollocks
Not to be a dick, but if you want to sound like an illiterate dumbass, forgoing the proper use of apostrophes is an excellent start. Do people care? Not the general public, but the people who invest in literature? Yeah, probably. But who knows... ten years from now the publishing gatekeepers might find that proper grammar is no longer necessary and emojis and text-speak might actually sell more books. Shoot me in the nuts if that happens. Sorry, really trying not to sound like a dick, but grammar is still really fucking important when you broker in words. But that's just my not-humble-at-all-opinion.
Are you turning into Gollum?? Throw the precious ring away—get it out of your handses! Do it now!! Hey, maybe that's it. The whole secret of the Hobbitses. Maybe the ring just takes away your understandingses of apostrophees.
