Apostrophe Abuse
when in doubt, leave it out
I see it everywhere,
wish punctuation marks had a union,
some representative to speak up
when someone combines two complete sentences with just a
comma
or takes an apostrophe out of a contraction,
making it feel ugly and unnecessary, a stranger in a strange land
attempting to pluralize words,
wedged uncomfortably in between the word and its beloved s,
like a third wheel on a date, a chaperone to keep that word from reproducing right there in the middle of the dance floor with God and everyone watching.
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and all kinds of witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me.
I’m known as Dena Brown to the revenuers and pollsters.
MA English literature, College of Charleston
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Letter to my Daughter
You have a choice to make here: are you going to continue the cycle, or are you going to break it? Keeping your son away from me hurts him; there’s no question about that. I thought you were being hurt, and I was trying to protect you, not punish anyone when I kept your grandfather away from you. I have said that I was wrong and I am sorry, but there was never any malice involved.
By Harper LewisExclusive • 2 months ago
Comments (1)
Someone had to say it. I only ever knowingly abuse grammar and spelling. I hate when errors are there. Though in bigger pieces they can be expected. It's the ones that are beyond the realms of mistypes and typos that bug me. Learn to do English. It always makes me laugh when right wing intimidated people say to immigrants, learn the language when they often are worse lol. Thank you for this, pretty pedant