Why do we still have so many apostrophes in English?

[Boliviabae]

It takes so much longer to type anything on the phone.

Apostrophe's were originally in place to show two words shortened into one. But the shortened versions of the words have been in the English langauge for so long now, why do we need the apostrophes.

The word 'Dont' for example, is easily understandable, without an apostrophe.

Good analogy

I haven't run into assholes anywhere else in my day, except here on mumsnet.

Good post!

Yes words get added to the Oxford English dictionary all the time. Langauge always changes and evolves.

I think that apostophes in some words will eventually die out.

I didn't say that dyslexia only affects spelling, and I've certainly not said anything about intelligence (low or otherwise).

But 'it's' and 'Its' are different words.

It doesn't matter.

We already use the same spelling for different words in English.

Eg "read a book"
"Book a taxi"

You could cause an argument in a paper bag.

I didn't say that you did say that you said anything about low intelligence, did I

I said that another poster wrote that people with bad spelling have low intelligence.

I argued with that poster, and said that people with dyslexia can't spell well, and they are still very intelligent.

You then argued me with me about dyslexia. So i wrote, "do you agree with that poster?"

"You could cause an argument in a paper bag."

😂😂Oh, the irony!

I will ask you again, as you didn't answer.

Do you agree with the poster who said that people who can't spell have low intelligence?

How is it pathetic and disgusting? I’m not blaming the person who can’t use correct grammar and making no assumptions as to their intelligence; I’m merely saying that they will have been let down by the education system in not finding it easy!

@Boliviabae what are hoping to gain from all of this?

Apostrophe's were originally in place to show two words shortened into one.

The irony of both an incorrect apostrophe and an incorrect statement.

Apostrophes are used to denote a contraction and also to indicate possession.

The plural of friend is friends. No apostrophe.__

🤣🤯🤓

It’s a cracker of a statement!

I spelled 'Apostrophes' correct in my thread title, in my second post and in my third post.

I find it utterly bizarre that people keep picking on the one post where I made a typo mistake, which was clearly a slip of the finger on a phone.

I find it even more bizarre that posters come on here and write the exact same thing over and over.

You are about the tenth poster to write this.

Can I ask you, What do you think you are adding to the conversation, by writing the exaxt same thing that has already been written ten times?

'Apostrophes' is spelled correctly in my thread title.

Why ignore that?

Because people are nasty bullies that's why, and they just love laughing at other people's mistakes.

As people are so utterly petty and nasty on here, I am going to go back through people's posts and point out their mistakes.

Can I ask you, What do you think you are adding to the conversation, by writing the exaxt same thing that has already been written ten times?

I didn’t RTFT, so I’m just adding to the wind up rather than anything worthwhile 😂

Read the fucking thread then.

It's ridiculous.

You sound cross, OP. 😬

Of course.

It's irritating when people do not read the thread and then post something that has been posted ten times before.

Why do it? It is immature.

I always read the full thread before I post.

I don't believe that's actually what poster said. But no, I don't think that - and I'm not sure where I gave the impression I did.

Have you tried reading the room as well ?

I never read the full thread. Sometimes I ‘read all’ from the OP. But I can’t be doing with pages of comments.

I find apostrophes useful and pretty logical in English. There's always a good reason why/when they're needed eg to indicate a letter has been omitted, contractions, possession or whatever.

The trouble is that not all schools seem to teach how to use them. Then not everybody understands what they indicate and don't know when they're needed or not. For example, I've often seen people add them to plurals (which my brain initially reads as possession - after a moment of confusion I then realise what's happened).

I'm not a grammar nazi, but I do think apostrophes are useful and help keep the meaning of a text clear.