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This trend of putting an apostrophe before every single s has to stop
I'm indicating possession . The apostrophe belongs there.
Who's tran?
DOCTOR TRAN
IS A REAL DOCTOR
AND HE’S OFF TO EAT HICKORY-SMOKED HORSE BUTTHOLES
FROM A CUP
Please let me eat breakfast!
*whose
*whom’st’ve’d
You know, Tran Right.
Someone named Tran? If so, disregard the following:
I assumed you were talking about “the rights of trans folks”, which is usually “trans rights”. In that case, “trans” is an adjective. Like “human” in “human rights”.
If you did want it to be possessive for trans folks, similar to if you said “humans’ rights”, you’d say “trans folks’ rights”.
Because while “human” can be an adjective or a noun, “trans” is only an adjective. So you can call someone “a human”, but not “a trans”.
Technically, you could say 'a trans,' but it would fall into the same space as calling someone 'a gay' or 'a black.' It sounds weird enough to almost be dysphemistic.
I think this would be an example of metonymy.
It's close but I don't think so. A metonym for trans people would be something like 'IKEA sharks.' That would be something associated with the group rather than the direct word that names the group. 'A trans' is more of an unusual phrasing to create a sort of neologistic ethnonym.
'A trans' : 'a trans person' :: 'an american' : 'an american person'
To.me it sounds archiac, like "the Google"
No it doesn't. Since Trans ends in an s, the correct way to show possession is Trans'
While you normally would be correct, transgender is a adjective, while rights is the noun, so no apostrophe required at all
The number of people that know this is in the thousands
This made me actually laugh out loud.
Then it's
trans'Transeses'
Shouldn't it be "trans' " then ? Idk English is not even my first language, but that's what I was taught in school
Why are you indicating possession? I don't see the word "rule(s)" being possessed in any post.
I'm assuming it's a joke I'm not getting.
It's not a "trend." It's a small subset of the population that can VERY EASILY be blocked.
oh no someone accidentally put an apostrophe where there shouldn't be one
they must not be seen again, ever
Eh, as someone with hyperlexia, it's just a bit frustrating trying to read non-standard English. It sometimes takes me a while to figure out what the user actually meant when using the wrong written form of a homophone.
I think it's partially because I don't really hear speech in my head, so the jump from "it's" to "its", for example, is not obvious to me unless I slowly read it out loud.
I know English is a silly language with even sillier rules, but my brain expects it to be written out a certain way and stops parsing if that doesn't happen.
I've definitely blocked at least one person who had extremely poor English on here before, but not out of spite, simply because they brought me no value beyond just wasting my reading time until my brain eventually goes "I can't read this 🙃" and gets frustrated. IIRC they were writing in very abbreviated English with a ton of typos and homophone mistakes.
Is this Smorty slander?
...maybe!
Sorry Smorty, I just can't understand ya :(
Yeah, sometimes I just have to let my eyes glaze over something if it's written incoherently. It's nothing personal, my brain just cannot parse it.
If a person's post isn't good enough to proofread, it isn't good enough to read.
And if they proofread it and don't catch the error, they're either a bot or a moron, and I'm better off seeing neither.
again, "oh no someone made a small mistake THEY MUST NEVER BE SEEN AGAIN"
we need to put them in the bikini bottom spike rollers
It’s definitely more than it was 10 years ago. Even so, I don’t wanna block people. I just want them to know more about the stuff they use every day. Everyone deserves to have the ability to convey their ideas effectively.
My rule is contractions only. I don't even use use it for possession (eg Jake's car) because you can always pick that up just fine from context (Jakes car).
edit: Everybody hated that 🤷
You kinda have to use the apostrophe for possession though. It reads terribly without it.
Why a designated car to house multiple Jakes?
If the name ends in an S, you leave a floating apostrophe.
James'
If the name does not end with an S, you place an S after an apostrophe.
Carl's
The only time an S without an apostrophe is valid is when indicating plural. If the noun ends with an S, you do not have to change anything.
Many James
Many Carls
If the word is plural and ends with s then you use s' but for a single James, you can write James's.
Depends on pronunciation: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/apostrophe/possessives