NY Has Officially Lost It's Mind Bitch

[DanaC]

Why do you care so much Urbane?

I don't think it's contemptible to want to see in others' writings, what they intended rather than wilfully disparage it simply for a misplaced apostrophe. Actually, apostrophes are one of the more difficult concepts in the English language to grasp. Many, many people who are otherwise perfectly competant at communicating in both verbal and written arena, and whose vocabulary is just as extended as either yours or mine, have difficulty with the correct usage of apostrophes. There are one or two very specific usages of the possessive apostrophe that I have to think carefully about and I used to teach the language.
There is a reason we have the phenomenon of the Greengrocer's apostrophe.