http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55040 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:39:35 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55040#post-159194 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:57:21 +0000 sigmund 159194@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If you want a fun Ding, contact Rupert Murdoch. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55040#post-159184 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:04:39 +0000 Titus 159184@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Murphy's law indeed - would edit if I could.</p> <p>But Apostrophitis is different from random typos and much more mysterious. It is deliberate, not accidental. If it were accidental it would be random, would infect all punctuation not just apostrophes and would be as likely to lead to their absence where needed as much as to their presence where unwanted - which it never is.</p> <p>Research continue's. Funding sought. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55040#post-159102 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:25:11 +0000 The All New Jeni B 159102@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"Missing'of'itis" is on the rise too. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55040#post-159096 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:31:53 +0000 rickwestwell 159096@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Muphry's Law strikes again! :-) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55040#post-159095 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:18:34 +0000 Dick Everyman 159095@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><strong>even in unxpected places which are normaally well maintained</p> <p>is thtat it only ever seems to feature apostrophes</strong></p> <p>...."Seems like it even affects speling" ;0) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55040#post-159087 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:23:35 +0000 Titus 159087@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"Despite rigorous efforts to purge such posts" stated P. Dant, professor of Grammatical Infection at the English University "the highly persistent Superfluous Apostrophe infection can still strike without warning, even in unxpected places which are normaally well maintained. It results in the victim looking foolish and ignorant, and frequently destroys the credibility the post in question."</p> <p>"One strange characteristic of the infection" continued the professor "is thtat it only ever seems to feature apostrophes and no other punctuation marks. And it only ever seems to cause the growth of additional apostrophes where they are unwanted, never their absence from where they belong. The problem just get's worse." </p>