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Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid

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Re: Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid

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There's more than one way to use an apostrophe y'know

Oh yes, I do. “More than one way” in more than one way, even. One such split is two ways: The right way, and the wrong way. Where, for instance, using it in “CEO’s” is the right way for a possessive, but the wrong way for a plural.

In my estimation they chose clarity over correctness; no reasonable person would mistake `CEO's` as a possessive usage, only a prescriptivist.

Re: Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid

#72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh yes, I do. “More than one way” in more than one way, even. One such split is two ways: The right way, and the wrong way. Where, for instance, using it in “CEO’s” is the right way for a possessive, but the wrong way for a plural.

In my estimation they chose clarity over correctness; no reasonable person would mistake `CEO's` as a possessive usage, only a prescriptivist.

ISWYDT, and I don't like it. Hope you're proud of yourself for coming up with it, so at least someone gets something out of it.

Re: Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid

#73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh yes, I do. “More than one way” in more than one way, even. One such split is two ways: The right way, and the wrong way. Where, for instance, using it in “CEO’s” is the right way for a possessive, but the wrong way for a plural.

In my estimation they chose clarity over correctness; no reasonable person would mistake `CEO's` as a possessive usage, only a prescriptivist.

How does a superfluous apostrophe make anything clearer?
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