Apostrophe abuse report!
Just got the Justice catalog. It's a store with cute clothes, etc., for tween-age girls. There's a shirt that I thought was cute with monkeys on it. Then I looked down the sleeve and saw "I LOVE MONKEY'S."
AGGGHHHH!!!! This drives me crazy!!
AGGGHHHH!!!! This drives me crazy!!
Labels: alarming rate of illiteracy in our country, apostrophe abuse
posted by Deana Nall @ 2:19 PM
13 Comments:
At Mon Dec 03, 02:56:00 PM,
elizabeth said…
I have a piece of my Snow Village that is a Law Office and on the side, it says "C.P.A's". C.P.A.'s what? It annoys me every time I see it.
At Mon Dec 03, 09:08:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Maybe they left out a word - like butt - as in "I love monkey's butt" - I would like to see that on their $40 t-shirt!!! (Exclaimation point abuse!!)
Carrie
At Tue Dec 04, 06:43:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
OOPS! THAT'S EXCLAMATION POINT - SPELLING AND ALL CAPS ABUSE.
CARRIE
At Tue Dec 04, 06:50:00 AM,
Deana Nall said…
Carrie -- You multiple offender! That's OK. I won't turn you in. THIS TIME.
P.S. I do love monkey's butt.
At Tue Dec 04, 04:00:00 PM,
SG said…
Elizabeth
They meant to say "The CPA's are in" but ran out of ink in their itty bitty pens.
Literacy is so over rated! :)
You seem to have several fans, or at least comments, from Waco!
At Tue Dec 04, 04:45:00 PM,
Deana Nall said…
Actually that still wouldn't get it because CPA's is possessive so the CPA would have to own something. Like the CPA's Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
I love Waco but I seem to only visit when a hurricane is headed toward my house. Which isn't likely to happen in Arkansas.
At Tue Dec 04, 06:09:00 PM,
elizabeth said…
Deana-
We can always hope for a tornado in your neck of the woods!
C.P.A.'s restless leg syndrome?
At Tue Dec 04, 06:53:00 PM,
Wade said…
Hey D,
You beat me to the punch with a post I had in mind about this very topic.
I call on a doctor who has hanging in his office a sign that says, "Employee's Only"!
A doctor! You would think a doctor could grasp the very simple concept of apostrophe usage!
I'm going to sneak in my camera phone and take picture of it the next time I'm there!
Stay tuned!
W
At Wed Dec 05, 01:21:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Deana! Come to Waco to see me. I get bored here! But it beats the crud outta Baytown!
At Wed Dec 05, 01:25:00 PM,
sarahdawn said…
I'mjust happy to know I'm the only person who read that and thought they surely just left off the word butt. I mean, what else could follow monkey's and make sense? No one says monkey's arm or monkey's left toe. Clearly Monkey's Butt is the only possible solution.
At Thu Dec 06, 10:18:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
Have you read Eats, Shoots, and Leaves? You'd really appreciate it...
Love you!
At Thu Dec 06, 01:27:00 PM,
Stephanie said…
Paige beat me to my comment. Read Lynn Trusse - she validates my righteous indignation and makes me laugh!
At Fri Dec 07, 07:26:00 AM,
Anonymous said…
Definitely read Lynne Truss. She aims her righteous indignation at this very phenomenon, these so-called "greengrocers' apostrophes" (or, as has been jokingly suggested by some, "greengrocers apostrophe's").
I really hope my browser's character encoding is right, or the above is going to look really illiterate.
Jeff W (Amy D's hubby)
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