Today's exercise in apostrophe abuse...
Jan. 27th, 2005 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnan...or, why the IMDb really just shouldn't allow comments. The user comment on Steven Soderbergh's Kafka:
One of those four apostrophes is actually correct. One of them is a mistake so common it's easy not to care any more. Pluralizing a verb with an apostrophe is egregious.
But spelling "Jeremy Irons" with an apostrophe is just beyond the pale. If anyone needs me today, I'll be at True Grounds, mourning the loss of literacy in America.
Despite it's excellent 1st hour with Jeromy Iron's playing a quirky insurance inspector investigating the strangeness surrounding his partner's disappearance, the movie get's lost in a Frankenstein mode and it never returns.
One of those four apostrophes is actually correct. One of them is a mistake so common it's easy not to care any more. Pluralizing a verb with an apostrophe is egregious.
But spelling "Jeremy Irons" with an apostrophe is just beyond the pale. If anyone needs me today, I'll be at True Grounds, mourning the loss of literacy in America.