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Post by Harpsdesire on Sept 22, 2010 15:12:30 GMT -5
I'm having a very 'Phaedra' moment at work right now. Trying to read some documentation about [computer stuff, yo]. It contains, it multiple places, the phrase " test data's". As in "test data's for this week can be found at this location on the server". I can hardly read it. *fumes, fumes* Grocer's apostrophe aside, how can it be that computer programmers, all with undergrad degrees at the very least, don't know that the word "data" is already plural?   Behold my bemused and unduly distracted expression! |
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Post by Lucca on Sept 22, 2010 15:24:24 GMT -5
*winces* >_< Ouuuuch. I feel ya there, Harps. Misuse of apostrophes nowadays is getting way out of hand, but in a professional setting it's even worse...and, as you said, when no 's' was even needed for the plural!
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Post by Bee on Sept 22, 2010 16:53:46 GMT -5
This distresses me. There is no excuse for apostrophe abuse.  I frequently encounter a slightly more comprehensible (though no less reprehensible) species of grammatical failure from some of the stoned teenagers I work with. Did you know that "fries" is actually spelled "fry's?" Or that "prawn" is actually "prone"? Nor did I. The creative name spellings are best, though. There are five thousand different ways to spell "Lowell"--including but certainly not limited to "Lull", "Lowl", "Lole", "Lol", and 'Lule". Apparently Dawn is actually a man named Don, and Don a woman named Dawn. My absolute favorite is when people leave the final "i" off Virginia, though. For a long time we had a resident named Virgina, pronounced exactly as immaturely as you might expect, and it filled us with lulz. Or perhaps that's loles. Lowells? You shouldn't post stuff like this, Harps. D8 It gets me all riled up and I can't afford heart failure this early in the game. |
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Post by Kitty on Sept 22, 2010 19:05:27 GMT -5
Beee..... I work for a place called Fry's... .but I doubt your co-workers are speaking of my hell XD <3
And, sadly, I have these on several occasions reading what my teachers type up for study guides or... gads, in my -English- book >.>
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Post by Harpsdesire on Sept 22, 2010 19:50:01 GMT -5
Sorrrrrry Bee. I am most contrite, I assure you.
I live near a place called Lowell... I'm calling it 'lol' from now on. Lol! See? There I go now.
While we're on the subject of awkward names, I thought it worth mentioning that my mom knows of a person named 'Hugette Butteau". Pronounced exactly as immaturely as you imagine. Legit.
And one of my friend's grandmothers is named "Fanny Noyes". Again, exactly as immaturely as... you get the idea.
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Lauryn de Vampyre
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Post by Lauryn de Vampyre on Sept 28, 2010 4:44:13 GMT -5
I correct people all the time with grammar, so I understand your pain.
I would have taken a red pen and marked all over the damn pages!
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Post by Harpsdesire on Sept 28, 2010 8:34:29 GMT -5
Well, I would have had to change the font color in the document to red, lol.
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Lauryn de Vampyre
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Post by Lauryn de Vampyre on Sept 29, 2010 3:53:36 GMT -5
Next time, DO EET!!! Mwahahahaha!
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Post by Harpsdesire on Sept 29, 2010 8:13:50 GMT -5
Heh... Maybe I will.
But then I'd keep the corrected copy to myself. ^_^; I do have some sense of self preservation, after all. This is always a very political office setting.
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Post by Vyn on Sept 30, 2010 10:59:22 GMT -5
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I frequently encounter a slightly more comprehensible (though no less reprehensible) species of grammatical failure from some of the stoned teenagers I work with. Did you know that "fries" is actually spelled "fry's?" Or that "prawn" is actually "prone"? Nor did I. 
