It's your language. You use it every day. You should strive to master it. My late mother, a 27-year, graduate-level professor of English, embedded that in my brain once upon a time. I’m not nearly as smart as she was, but I’m sharp enough to recognize that the vast majority of native-born Americans can’t speak or write English worth a lick.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Vintage Apostrophe Fail
From a January 1975 Time Magazine. Click to enlarge
Wordacious: My girlfriend Shelley was going through some old boxes from back in the day and found it. :-)
Annie Fanny: LOL. I've been reading your trip posts...just not commenting for fear of coming off bitter (because I wasn't there). What a fantastic trip that must've been.
5 comments:
Where did you come across a Time from 1975?
Great catch...I love it.
uh-oh, Carlos. Drug dealers selling cameras again :) (lol)
Wordacious: My girlfriend Shelley was going through some old boxes from back in the day and found it. :-)
Annie Fanny: LOL. I've been reading your trip posts...just not commenting for fear of coming off bitter (because I wasn't there). What a fantastic trip that must've been.
That one isn't so bad. It isn't a stretch to read it as "... at your photo dealer's [place of business]."
That one could actually technically be correct, if it's short for "See them at your photo dealer's store" or something like that.
I'm not sure if that's what they meant, though.
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