Klarinet Archive - Posting 001027.txt from 2000/11

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] War of the Tony`s
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:11:19 -0500

--- Karel Vahala <vahalakv@-----.au> wrote:

> And I thought Australia was the only place that uses < ' > wrongly. Sorry to
> jump on this, but as English is my second language, there are mistakes I find
> very irritating. The use of the apostrophe, which means < of >, to try and
> express < plural > is so common. And since language is our means of
> communication, teachers everywhere should work to eradicate this awful
> malexpression. It is almost as bad as calling a rest the continuation of the
> preceding note.

I'm a bit of a closet English-o-phile, and it is actually proper usage
in this case to include the apostrophe to denote plurality. It looks
wrong, yes, but nobody ever accused the English language of being con-
sistent.

-- Neil

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