Fantastic! I never venture into apostrophe hell in my rants. Consider this from me. 🙂
The email from a member of the technical support team began:
“Hi Lady’s,
Now your both up and running…”
Sorry, but I’m afraid you lost me at “Lady’s”.
I admit it. I’m a pedant. Grammar, spelling, punctuation: they all irritate me when incorrect. I was taught well by my mother when I was a child, and I grew up with the overwhelming urge to correct people; to right the writing wrongs of society and enlighten my social inferiors to their grammatical sins. I have been known to send follow-up emails to correct shameful errors that somehow slipped through my editing (just to prove to any eagle-eyed readers that I do indeed understand correct usage), and delete then re-post Facebook status updates that were inadvertently sent off into the ether with – oh, horror! – a mistake!!
Oh, yes. Facebook. The place where the illiterate and the sloppy share with the world…
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I taught you well, Jedi.
For a moment, I actually thought, “omg…Ms Macik reads my blog!” Then I realized she’d never say “Jedi”. 😦
I wish I could take credit, but I didn’t write this. It is awesome tho!
I’m glad to see we are not alone in our obsession with correct grammar. When Lisa was in high school and applying to colleges, she received a letter from Clarion that was so poorly written, we corrected all the grammar and punctuation and sent it back! She did NOT attend Clarion!