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[Jay 17589]

The plural of CD is CDs.  "I bought 2 CDs".

 

CD's implies a possessive.  "The CD's label is weird.".

[King Mark 2615]

hm?

[Jay 17589]

15 hours ago, King Mark said:

c.d.'s

 

[mstrox 3922]

Cdz

[Jurassic Shark 5993]

OCD

[Brundlefly 1766]

20 hours ago, Jay said:

The plural of CD is CDs.  "I bought 2 CDs".

 

CD's implies a possessive.  "The CD's label is weird.".

He even set a dot behind every fucking letter!

[bollemanneke 1690]

There are worse mistakes to make, though. I'll never understand why educated people, like Christian Clemensen, write about "it's merits". It's so obvious it's means it is.

[Jay 17589]

I never understood why so many people add apostrophes when pluralizing things.  That's not a JWFan thing, it's everywhere on the internet.  And not just by people for whom English is a second language, it's everyone.  I don't understand what connection is even made in the brain to use an apostrophe when you're trying to pluralize something.

[crocodile 4824]

I'm guilty of that. Mea culpa.

 

Karol

[bollemanneke 1690]

Maybe because it's very common in other languages (like Dutch).

[Jay 17589]

Very common?  Is that true?

[bollemanneke 1690]

Uh, hmm, now I'm not too sure. We definitely write CD's and for some weird reason we need to add an apostrophe when a word ends on a certain vowel, even when the original word is English (baby's is our version of babies). God, I'm totally confused now since I hardly ever write in Dutch anymore.

[Jay 17589]

Interesting!

[phbart 511]

It's CDs for plural, and CD's for possessive nouns.

 

See, Dee??

[bruce marshall 460]

The poss3vive of Williams is " Williams' "

P plural : " williamses"

 

 

 

The plural of bus is " buses".

The verb is " busses"

[bruce marshall 460]

All I need!!!!!!!!😊

 

( plus the original LLL TPA)

[Brundlefly 1766]

20 hours ago, Jay said:

I never understood why so many people add apostrophes when pluralizing things.  That's not a JWFan thing, it's everywhere on the internet.  And not just by people for whom English is a second language, it's everyone.  I don't understand what connection is even made in the brain to use an apostrophe when you're trying to pluralize something.

Many Germans add an apostrophe to a "s" in order to imply a possessive, but that's incorrect. You just add an "s" without anything else to a noun. But in this case, we know where the fault is coming from: people mix up english and german standard. But why the heck people all around the globe would use an apostrophe to imply a plural is beyond me.

[Holko 5195]

I thought it was more prominent with those whose first language is English, they hear "its" and "it's" for years sounding alike, before learning to write and knowing the grammar and sense behind them.

[crumbs 8166]

13 minutes ago, Holko said:

I thought it was more prominent with those whose first language is English, they hear "its" and "it's" for years sounding alike, before learning the grammar and sense behind them.

 

That example confuses lots of people, because the general rule is to add an apostrophe to denote possession/ownership (eg: that was Holko's fantastic GIF). But "its" should only have an apostrophe to denote an abbreviation of "it is," and should not have an apostrophe to denote ownership when used that way.

 

So, if you wrote, "a bird should feather its nest," it denotes ownership without the apostrophe because adding one would say, "a bird should feather it is nest," which makes no grammatical sense.

 

In closing, it's a language filled with weird inconsistencies.

[BrotherSound 668]

On 7/24/2020 at 5:37 AM, Jay said:

I never understood why so many people add apostrophes when pluralizing things.  That's not a JWFan thing, it's everywhere on the internet.  And not just by people for whom English is a second language, it's everyone.  I don't understand what connection is even made in the brain to use an apostrophe when you're trying to pluralize something.

There’s even a name for it: the grocer’s apostrophe: https://wordcounter.net/blog/tag/grocers-apostrophe

 

[bollemanneke 1690]

Since this thread has become a language discussion anyway, could someone please tell me why some native speakers write 'they could of wrote…?'

[Holko 5195]

Again, they probably hear "could've" pronounced like that in certain accents way before they can read/write and understand it makes zero goddamn since.

 

 

Yes that was intentional.

 

 

Maybe I'm giving them too much credit and they're just lazy and uneducated as adults too.