borrowing from toby's post, i know, but i was just invited a myspace group entitled "claire's rule the world".
here's the message i got: Hello claire, Claire has invited you to join Claire's rule the world! on MySpace.
OK. now. let us move past the fact that someone has created this club. because i just don't have the energy this morning for that. and can someone please explain to me why i would ever want to join any club on myspace, let alone a club of claires? are we all friends becasue we have the same name? and, i shit you not, one of the comment threads is all of the claires listing their middle names, and getting excited when they have the same middle name as another claire. oh. my. god. let us not get into that today.
let us focus on the apostrophe (because i'll have a brain embolism or something if i have to keep talking about the claire group).
come on, people!! get it together! i know they're fun looking and contractions are awesome. but let us use a little restraint, ok? see what i just did there? i did not use a contraction! i spelled out both of the words. because sometimes (most often when there are PLURAL FORMS BEING USED) the apostrophe is just not the answer.
end rant.
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Ok. Here's what you do: Join the group. Post a comment on apostrophe usage. You whip those Claires into shape. They need you, dude. You could rule them all.
One Claire to find them. One Claire to rule them all, and in punctuation bind them.
You guys are silly. It's obvious that Claire owns Rule the World. The punctuation is fine. Stop picking.
(Shit, that's an incomplete sentence. It's missing all kinds of prepositions, and objects... and stuff.)
i mean, i feel like i'd be surrounded and mawled by an angry group of dumb claires (of which i'm sure there are quite a few, as i've decided that the majority of the world (present readership excluded, of course) is dumb). so anyway, they'd surround me and then yell at me and kick me out of the group.
and then i'd be disappointed. and then i'd be disappointed that i was disappointed. and that would send me into a downward spiral of poor grammarand bad writing (with repeating words). it would be scary.
ok. i'll do it. oh. can i take back my "deny" response??
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for humorant effect, you should be referring to them as "claire is" not as claires. example:
"i feel like i'd be surroundded and mauled by an angry group of dumb claire is." or, "you whip those claire is into shape." after all, can is only.
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