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Re:Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe... by gerikson on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @10:33AM (#41788335)
We see these in Swedish too and they're just as incorrect, grammatically.

But the worst thing is usually the acute accent is used instead of a real apostrophe, which just makes it stand out even more.

Re:Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe... by aejfghalsgjbae on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @12:24PM (#41789688)
You get that a lot in Germany and the grave accent too, as with "Rosi`s" in the article image. I guess the acute accent is laziness because unlike the apostrophe, it doesn't need the shift key on a standard German keyboard layout. The grave accent is at shift+ยด so just weird.