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Apo- and other Catastrophes

Thank God, some people feel the same as we do!

Won the IgNobel Prize in 2001 "for his efforts to protect, promote, and defend the differences between plural and possessive."

si1ja - 5. Jan, 09:17 2 comments - add comment

tinius - 5. Jan, 09:48

So it is not only a German problem ("Deppen - Apostroph"). Nice to know. ;)

si1ja - 5. Jan, 10:07

Yup,

but I'd say that the English have more reason to mix them up. In German, it's just ODD that people think of using apostrophes at all (since they're comparatively rare).