How to get meetings with people too busy to see you

Re:How to get meetings with people too busy to see you by yebyen on Monday August 12, 2013 @12:33PM (#6200096)

Apostrophe has two uses as far as I know... one is for elision ('60s indicates that "19" has been elided or omitted) and possession (The 1910s' greatest author was Franz Kafka)

The "grocer's apostrophe" or "grocers' apostrophe" is what's incorrectly added to the plural form like what you're describing, the short answer is yes. '60s not 60's.

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Re:How to get meetings with people too busy to see you by btilly on Monday August 12, 2013 @01:07PM (#6200308)

Single quotes have another use. Which is to mark off quotations inside of quotations.

Technically speaking you use single quotes there, but not apostrophes. However I mention it because the quotation mark that you used is a single quote.

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Re:How to get meetings with people too busy to see you by yebyen on Monday August 12, 2013 @02:14PM (#6200711)

Thanks. My keyboard only has one apostrophe/single quote key, as I suspect most do, but I have been learning to use the compose key and I appreciate little details like that.

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