Image transcription: a screenshot of a Twitter post by "atrophy wife 🦋" (@zusa_real). It reads: "old english writers: alas! how could we possibly mark a word that is shortened? the apostrophe:" Below is an image of a cat Photoshopped to be in the shape of the aforementioned punctuation mark. End transcription.
Apostrophe rule
5 Comments
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 2y
Looks more like a catastrophe to me.
meep_launcher@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y
English is actually an amazing language for improvising words. The Frankensteinification of our language is awesome for wordsmithing. The jabberwocky is a poem that fit best in the English language.
Also I had to fit "maybe we will" into two syllables for a song, and it works. "Maybe'l" gets the point across well.
yuri@pawb.social · 4 pts · 2y
Omfg it’s that cat from showgirls!
fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net · 3 pts · 2y
ca’
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Also great for protecting word's from those dangerou's terminal "s".