• Kiosade@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      To be fair, whomever decided to use an apostrophe to indicate possession AND abbreviation clearly didn’t think through all the possible conflicts before going ahead and making it a thing. Should have made a separate symbol for one of them.

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        10 months ago

        Yes, thousands of years of established language development is wrong … not the individual who is unable to learn what millions of others have been able to.

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          10 months ago

          Yes, thousands of years of established language development is wrong

          Yes, it is. Island has an ‘s’ in it as a stylistic choice to Latinize a word that has no Latin root. Literally is now defined as “not literally” which is absurd. That’s established language development.

          If people keep using “it’s” as possessive then it will become possessive, and nothing will be lost.