Apostrophe society shuts down because 'ignorance and laziness have won'
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#3Richard, I swear to carry on you’re cause!
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> ok boomer
Why would you call a 96-year old a "boomer"?
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#5Is the headline of the NYT Times article How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them, an incorrect use of the apostrophe that this society is rallying against?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/business/how-to-be-a-ceo....
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#6Is the headline of the NYT Times article How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them , an incorrect use of the apostrophe that this society is rallying against? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/business/how-to-be-a-ceo....
No. There is something wrong with that headline, but the apostrophe is not it.
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#7Is the headline of the NYT Times article How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them , an incorrect use of the apostrophe that this society is rallying against? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/business/how-to-be-a-ceo....
No. There is something wrong with that headline, but the apostrophe is not it.
The decade has possession of the experience? A decade of worth is also correct, sans the possessive noun.
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#8Its just simpler to not worry about the apostrophes. Theyre unnecessary for understanding what a sentence is saying. Im confident that future English will be slightly superior once it has eliminated the apostrophe.
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#9Its just simpler to not worry about the apostrophes. Theyre unnecessary for understanding what a sentence is saying. Im confident that future English will be slightly superior once it has eliminated the apostrophe.
Language communicates many things. Correct usage of apostrophes or who/whom is like metadata in your writing that communicates “I am at least educated enough to have been in fourth grade, and at least intelligent enough to have retained some pretty basic rules since then, and at least careful enough to give a damn”. It’s a weak signal, but it’s a signal nonetheless, and people aren’t going to give it up.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. There is something wrong with that headline, but the apostrophe is not it.
The decade has possession of the experience? A decade of worth is also correct, sans the possessive noun.
“A decade worth” or “a decade’s worth” would be fine, “a decades worth” would not.
If it still doesn’t sound right to you, try “in a year’s time”.