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July 02, 2009

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mia

I haven't seen the quotation mark thing in the U.S. Are you talking about a japanese trend, or do is SF just impervious to bad grammar?

David

the latter

Garth Webb

Mine is needless use of apostrophes. For example, I saw a sign at a small local airport that read "Plane Ride's." Really? Plane ride's what? Who is plane ride?

Kelvin

Sometimes grammar issues happen like that. Usually I tend to underline or bold, capitalize, depending if something is typed or handwritten the word that needs to be emphasized. I really like your business card case.

David

Over-capitalization is occasionally a faux pas, but there are plenty
of cases where it adds emphasis just fine. Bold and underlines work
almost anywhere (except plain text email, where I usually use an
asterisk on either side of the word).


On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:23 AM, TypePad

David

Apostrophes get brutalized pretty often, too, especially in "It's" and
"its." I might be wrong here, but I think the only time you use it to
pluralize is in referring to a word as a word, ie "My report card was
all A's this semester."

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The good thing about your information is that it is explicit enough for students to grasp. Thanks for your efforts in spreading academic knowledge.

David

Colloquial English is in a sad state today- it's up to us to do something.

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