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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-21-09 11:38 AM
Response to Reply #7
8. Exactly
That's what Mr. MG says when he reads my aunt's greeting cards. " 'MG Jr.'--so that's not really his name?"
:rofl:
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  -Fellow Grammar Nazis who hate it when people use apostrophes in the wrong way cherish44  Mar-21-09 09:01 AM   #0 
  - possessive plurals throw off a lot of peeps, but some people like to use punctuation  NightWatcher   Mar-21-09 09:04 AM   #1 
  - sesquipedalian prosaic behavior?  3.14158675309   Mar-21-09 11:33 AM   #6 
  - I hate that. But what I hate more  Ivan Sputnik   Mar-21-09 09:40 AM   #2 
  - ROFL my aunt does that in greeting cards  MorningGlow   Mar-21-09 11:23 AM   #3 
  - If I hadn't put "use's apostrophe's" in quotes then the sarcasm might have been lost  cherish44   Mar-21-09 11:27 AM   #4 
  - I didn't think twice about your use--entirely correct there!  MorningGlow   Mar-21-09 11:31 AM   #5 
  - I always assume stuff in quotes means sarcasm  cherish44   Mar-21-09 11:37 AM   #7 
  - Exactly  MorningGlow   Mar-21-09 11:38 AM   #8 
  - I make the same assumption.  surrealAmerican   Mar-21-09 06:38 PM   #15 
  - "other work"  kentauros   Mar-21-09 06:48 PM   #17 
     - Oh, snap!  MorningGlow   Mar-21-09 06:52 PM   #18 
        - No "problem"!  kentauros   Mar-21-09 07:02 PM   #19 
           - I beg to "differ"--'tis a "problem" of "neglect"  MorningGlow   Mar-21-09 07:19 PM   #23 
              - Not to worry.  kentauros   Mar-21-09 08:06 PM   #24 
  - I didn't mean you  Ivan Sputnik   Mar-21-09 01:48 PM   #10 
  - Nice "post", "MorningGlow"!  madinmaryland   Mar-21-09 07:09 PM   #20 
     - Back "atcha!"  MorningGlow   Mar-21-09 07:18 PM   #22 
  - You might like this, then  fishwax   Mar-21-09 12:21 PM   #9 
  - They mean it ironically...  gmoney   Mar-21-09 09:07 PM   #27 
  - Drives me crazy.  RebelOne   Mar-21-09 01:54 PM   #11 
  - Very good, Padawan  DS1   Mar-21-09 01:56 PM   #12 
  - They can have my copy of Strunk and White  pokerfan   Mar-21-09 02:02 PM   #13 
  - Like the Science Fiction apostrophe?  Dogmudgeon   Mar-21-09 04:41 PM   #14 
  - Using an apostrophe the right way can be rather enjoyable.  rug   Mar-21-09 06:39 PM   #16 
  - Count me in. Sorry, but I HATE the misuse of the apostrophe. It drives me nuts. NT  Mike 03   Mar-21-09 07:15 PM   #21 
  - That's not Nazi-ism, that's just grammar.  jobycom   Mar-21-09 08:20 PM   #25 
  - YES! My major grammar pet peeve of all time!  Mad_Dem_X   Mar-21-09 08:26 PM   #26 
 

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