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Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval

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Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval

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Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 5 months ago

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Linguistic body has relaxed rules on use of apostrophe to show possession, not traditionally correct in German

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How’s it feel rest of the world? To have English seep into your language after so many centuries of only having your languages seep into English.

French:

Although, aside from the great vowel shift, we gladly contributed at fucking up English orthography.

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