Typos taht drive you CRAZEY!

I hate the greengrocers' apostrophe. You all know what I mean, right?

Onion's Cabbage's Carrot's

I also hate using the possessive form of a word that ends in "s" because even though I know that you should put the apostrophe after the "s", it just looks so wrong. Sometimes I twist a sentance around in knots to avoid using the posessive apostrophe.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Actually the ones I hate are the deliberately misspelled words. Like some people will say "welp" or "whelp" instead of "well". Those aren't words. There are thousands of examples like that.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Denicalis

Oh. Or faggy fucking newage/emo kids who say shit like "Oh my goth." You know what's not clever? You if you say that. Just... pathetic.

You encountered someone who says that? Did you somehow manage to restrain yourself from curbstomping them? It's more than I probably could have done. I suppose if you encountered them over the internet the opportunity was never there. I'd be horrified if I met someone who thought that was clever. That's a perfect example of the kind of deliberate use of misspellings and mispronunciations that get on my nerves.

Oh... to preserve my grammar credentials I suppose I should acknowledge that "whelp" is actually a word. It just doesn't mean the same thing as "well", and may not be used in that context. I don't want to seem ignorant.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Detective Greenly

Actually, it can have something. The dog licked it's nose. =P However I might be wrong

Also, isn't it's also a contraction for 'it has'? At least that's how I used it in my last post there.

As far as I know, the possessive form of it is just "its" without the apostrophe, because "it's" is a contraction of "it is". It's the one exception to the rule, and naturally it will trip people up.

You'd say "The dog licked its nose."

The rule I have problems with is the placement of punctuation around a quotation. Inside or out? Surely not both.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Interrobang

Not particularly, since it's a possessive pronoun in the same vein as "his" or "her". This is also a good way to determine whether to use "its"; if you can replace the word with "his", then use "its".

A good point and well made, sir.

I was speaking idiomatically.