Type.. Oh.

alternateorg on April 17, 2001

I hears that them there people’s at that New York Times news-a-ma-paper ain’t payin’ no ‘tention to them’s grammar…

No, I ain’t no smart man, but why in the heck wouldn’t they just-a get a rid ah that there bad story title? And what about them a-ma-postrophe’s there? Is they sposta be there, too?

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8 Replies to “Type.. Oh.”

  1. f5 April 18, 2001 at 10:49 am

    I’ve got a question about a different grammer issue in those sentences.

    You know, I took ‘Grammer for Journalists’ in college (years ago), I’ve been designing professionally for a few years now, and I’ll be damned if I’m still confused about apostrophes / possesives / plurals, etc. Shouldn’t the Times be talking about DVDs, and not DVD’s?

  2. kev April 18, 2001 at 10:57 am

    I’m pretty sure that’s the case.. CDs, DVDs, CPUs, etc. The apostrophe has no purpose there, as I recall. I’d also like to thank Cletus the slack-jawed yokel for his elegant and special guest contribution to Alternate.

  4. kev April 22, 2001 at 1:20 pm

    So then you would simply use a lowercase s, right? Like I said. Cause DVD is plural, not possessive.

  5. f5 April 18, 2001 at 10:49 am

    I’ve got a question about a different grammer issue in those sentences.

    You know, I took ‘Grammer for Journalists’ in college (years ago), I’ve been designing professionally for a few years now, and I’ll be damned if I’m still confused about apostrophes / possesives / plurals, etc. Shouldn’t the Times be talking about DVDs, and not DVD’s?

  6. kev April 18, 2001 at 10:57 am

    I’m pretty sure that’s the case.. CDs, DVDs, CPUs, etc. The apostrophe has no purpose there, as I recall. I’d also like to thank Cletus the slack-jawed yokel for his elegant and special guest contribution to Alternate.

  8. kev April 22, 2001 at 1:20 pm

    So then you would simply use a lowercase s, right? Like I said. Cause DVD is plural, not possessive.

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