Happiness is an empty in box

[mamadeb]

The secret for me to keep on track and *finish* my work seems to be, "You can't play on LJ until you finish so many listings."

In other randomness:

One thing I haven't seen in all the various Lunacon reports is mention of one minor but amusing thing:

The convention posted notices all over the hotel saying "New York State Law prohibits smoking in all public area's". Yes. "Area's".

I reacted to my first sight of those notices in pain and horror. I apparently wasn't alone, because by Friday evening, all the apostrophes had been crossed out. Some signs were also amended with words like "boundaries" or "vicinities".

By Saturday afternoon, someone added his/her *own* signs below the notices stating that "Extra apostrophes (ie, "area's") is prohibited by the English language."

Others then corrected some of *those* to "eg", although that's actually a judgement call.

SF fans - editors all. :)

eta that the added signs said "are prohibited". Sorry.

Comments

[ratcreature]

Extra apostrophes are a bane. Due to a strong English language presence (and maybe some evil, twisted notion of "cool") some people here include apostrophes into German possessive cases, which just isn't done, the only time there are apostrophes present is when something ends on an "s" and you can't add another "s" so an apostrophe is added instead of the letter. And if that alone wasn't bad enough some people they also randomly insert them into plurals formed with an s (which thankfully isn't the most common way in German to form a plural, so it's not quite as rampant) like in your example.

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

from the sounds of it, you'll appreciate this:

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

There's also one about "Its" vs "It's", but I can't find it right now. I'll have to ask my hubby when he gets home.

[ratcreature]

Heh. An angry flower indeed. I'm actually more laid back about grammar and spelling mistakes than a lot of people, it's just-- you really don't need to *import* additional problems and difficulties into German, you know?