• The thing that does it for me is that they have intentionally added them where none are required.
    I can understand leaving them out, as it's easily explained by laziness. But to actively ADD the extra character is something so perverse, so vile, nebulous and despicable that I must continuously distance myself from these parasites who lay claim to the genus of Human.

    I don't know about laziness--that's probably a factor in some cases, but most people who make that mistake simply don't understand the rules for apostrophes (let alone other, more basic rules about singular and plural, for instance).

    There are some people who must think that spellings like 'im' for "I'm" constitute evidence of a kind of avantgarde attitude, but they're in a small minority.

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