#11

Would you like any types of apostrophes to remain?

#12

Well they were actually first used by a Frenchman called Pietro Bembo in 1496. But English apostrophes are unequivocally Tory in origin

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#13

I’d like to get rid of full stops, they make everything sound so harsh

#14

I mean the possessive ones seem to serve a function donot they?

#15

yeah, again you can just use a line break in this wonderful modern age

I concede they would help to save space on actual paper though if you need to write something down

#16

The possessive ones are abbreviations (of ‘es’).

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#17

so if I said “that hat is John’s” I am saying “that hat is Johnes?”

#18

That’s where it comes from, yes. It’s an elision (shortening) of the plural and possessive ‘es’ that was written at the end of nouns, but not really said out loud.

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#19

Yes but the hat originally belonged to garth, who placed it on the young jones’ head as a consolation of sorts for giving up the cross of coronado, which he had stolen from garth

#20

sorry I don’t get this at all

#21

Quite fun to put multiples together and say something like couldn’t’ve though.

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#22

This would waste so much paper

Rejected!

#23

no paper on a computer :thinking:

#24

I work in a school where we use our hands and books to write. What now brainiac

#25

You can just speak instead, that would save loads of paper.

Checkmate.

#26

You’ve done me there, you’ve clearly thought this through!

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#27

it wasn’t always jones’

#28

ok sure I just don’t know what the cross of coronado is or if it is some kind of injoke

#29

garth discovered the cross while working for panama, and jones stole it

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#30

The campaign for apostrophe atrophy

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