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.

Correct use of grammar makes you look intelligent.

Incorrect use of grammar makes you look unintelligent and/or lazy.

You need a full stop at the end of your sentence pet.

Perhaps start by not using them when they're not needed?

Lol. So original.

Read the thread.

That's already been said by someone else, and I've already replied.

It’s short for I am.

The apostrophe as you don't want to use it indicates a missing letter. In the same as the circumflex in French indicates a missing letter 's'. These things are there for a reason.

It's a good thing you never ran into the nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and ablative cases that some languages have. For one word.

Already been said SEVERAL times. Ffs.

As I already replied, I know it is spelled as 'apostrophes', and I spelled it correctly in my second and third post.

It was a typo slip on my phone, in my first post.

I'm sure you angels never make a typo mistake on your phone ever, of course

Eh we all know that.

What I'm saying is the contraction of the two words didn't always exist.

It was originay "I am", then they changed it to "I'm " to make it easier. Language evolves and changes.**

I completely disagree.

My friend is dyslexic for a start, she doesn't have great use of grammar, yet she is highly intelligent.

Or Ill or I’ll. Are you sick or will you?

Well, you would, wouldn’t you?

I once had the pleasure of being a temp for a guy who didnt 'believe' in punctuation as it was untidy. His letters to clients were pure gibberish. A lot of my day was taken up by answering phone calls from bewildered clients asking "wtf is this rubbish?" He didn't make any effort to render his creations into something understandable, simply left out all commas, apostrophes and full stops. Nuts. Utterly nuts. Have you married him OP?

This…..along with the fact that ‘OF’ is not an alternative for ‘HAVE’

Yes but it’s and its are two different words.

Other languages use all sorts of symbols and accents that aren't used in English, as well as gender based words.

It's all part of the beauty of language. Why dumb everything down just because it's easier to type out on a text message.

Why is “abbreviation” such a long word?
Why is “apostrophe” such a long word?

The shop was selling potato’s, carrot’s, apple’s, oranges’s.

There we’re more, but my eye’s couldn’t take it!

That's already been said by someone else, and I've already replied.

You don't need a comma in this sentence either.

You'd better not read any Victorian novels, OP. Sometimes there is more than one apostrophe in a word, and I am pretty certain I have seen 3.
Nb. The Dutch use lots of apostrophes, IIRC.

I'd be more worried about your understanding of commas than the use of apostrophes.

Some countries use them in names, e.g. Tonga and Samoa. It would be very rude to miss them out.

I agree, but maybe the OP is a fan of the Oxford comma.

I suspect not.

I disagree, but I’m a grammar and apostrophe pedant. My dc send me text messages with full sentences and punctuation or they get a reply with a correction. Everyone in my work field is similar due to the nature of the work we produce. The only people I’ve met who don’t use grammar appropriately have a lower education level. I’ve also employed people with dyslexia, one currently on my team, and they’re amazing, intelligent and able to use correct grammar.

Have you met french?

This is such a weird hill to choose to die on.

I use apostrophe fails (and inappropriate capitalisation) as a highly reliable indicator of who’s a far-right wingnut. The correlation is as tight as your dad.