Contractions Without the ' ?

[Captain Purpleheart]

I constantly see people in the chatterbox, gd, etc. (homes of text talk) who are to freaking lazy to add the ' into a contraction.
I'd just like to remind people that something isn't a contraction until you add in the '.
It just makes me cringe when I see
dont
Im
your (instead of you're)
youre
isnt
weve
etc.
Remember the ' when you are typing contractions.
(I know I sound like I'm going over the top with this, but it just really annoys me)  

[Kitakun]

Oh, it gets on my nerves, too.

Sometimes I have to try not to say anything when my family/friends do it.  

[Aubrey Nicole]

And it's weird when people do that to "we're" because then it becomes "were" which IS a word, but not the one that they intended to use.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

The apostrophe has to be the most abused punctuation mark in the English language. It's used where it shouldn't be: "The boy's drove their car's to their house", and not used where it should be: "Thats the dogs toy".

I went to the apostrophe's funeral and wept over its grave. RIP little possessive marker. We hardly knew ye.




This is a properly formatted sentence. The first letter of a sentence is ALWAYS capitalized. A sentence always ends in a punctuation mark, usually a period, but sometimes a question mark or exclamation point. Punctuation such as the comma, the colon and the semicolon are used as sentence pausers. Never should a sentence end with one of these.  

[snazy-a-tastic]

As much as it bothers me when people don't use it when they should, it bothers me more when people use it where they shouldn't. I'm not sure why. Maybe because I see it "over used" more.  

[Fuzzy_Bunny_of_Doom]

snazy-a-tastic

As much as it bothers me when people don't use it when they should, it bothers me more when people use it where they shouldn't. I'm not sure why. Maybe because I see it "over used" more.

Agreed.  

[splashseal]

Leaving out the apostraphe is downright annoying, whether it be in contractions or as a possessive marker.

In the case of contractions, the point of the apostraphe in the first place is to show that so many letters are missing. Do people not learn this anymore?

And yes, over-use is defnitely just as annoying. As a tutor I see some pretty strange things, and it grates when I see these mistakes.

Actually, now that I think of it, over-use might be worse. Everytime I see something like 'you're' being used when 'your' should be used, I see red and want to stab someone. People who have grown up speaking and writing English should know this!  

[The MoUsY spell-checker]

Yami no Hitokiri

I went to the apostrophe's funeral and wept over its grave. RIP little possessive marker. We hardly knew ye.

Ye? That's a plural form of "you", right?  

[The Man who was Thursday]

The MoUsY spell-checker

Yami no Hitokiri

I went to the apostrophe's funeral and wept over its grave. RIP little possessive marker. We hardly knew ye.

Ye? That's a plural form of "you", right?

Not really. He's using it as a dialectic form, so it doesn't matter at all.

Also, if thou wish to get technical, "you" is exclusively plural. "Thou" is the singular second person.  

[Arianna La Moire]

I always love seeing the olden language being debated.  

[Smoozle]

*Shudders* I really hate that! Why can't people type/speak/write properly! It is so annoying when you can't figure out what they are saying!  

[The Man who was Thursday]

dark.hazel

I always love seeing the olden language being debated.

"olden language"?

what.