Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval

Re:Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe... by SllX on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @11:59AM (#41789394)

I’ve seen similar suggestions but one of the best things about English is that we don’t have that nonsense. It would just be a source of annoyance and consternation adding more noise to news and politics in the Anglosphere.

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Re:Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe... by ktosobcy on Thursday October 10, 2024 @12:35PM (#41800589)

Dumb and inconsistent spelling is already a source of "annoyance" :P

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Re:Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe... by SllX on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:42PM (#41801957)

Yeah but we in the Anglosphere have this wonderful phrase for people that get too hung up on it: “get over it.”

I honestly don’t care if someone uses “color” or “colour” or makes ghoti jokes at the English language’s expense.

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Re:Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe... by ktosobcy on Friday October 11, 2024 @06:33AM (#41808194)

> Yeah but we in the Anglosphere have this wonderful phrase for people that get too hung up on it: “get over it.”

Unfortunately for the rest of the world outside of your beloved "anglosphere" using wrong spelling results in said "anglosphereian" being utterly butthurt.

Maybe the whole world should adopt universal language with saner spelling and leave english to anglosphere?

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Re:Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe... by SllX on Friday October 11, 2024 @10:25AM (#41809746)

> your beloved

Don’t put words in my mouth.

> Maybe the whole world should adopt universal language with saner spelling and leave english to anglosphere?

The rest of the world could. They won’t. But they could. You could use this as part of your spelling reforms: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=81 :)

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