Exclamation marks do something useful, like question marks. Apostrophes are useless.
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Exclamation marks do something useful, like question marks. Apostrophes are useless.
Except making sense of what you're reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by DiscoMick
Frank Zappa put it simply in his song Apostrophe
*(Well then Fido got up off the floor, and he rolled over
and he looked me straight in the eye
And you know what he said?
"Once upon a time, somebody say to me"
This is the dog talkin' now
"What is your, conceptual, continuity?"
"Well I told 'em right then", Fido said
"It should be easy to see
"The crux of the biscuit
is the apostrophe"
Well you know, the man that was talking to the dog
looked at the dog, and he said
Sort of staring in disbelief
"You can't say that"
he said
"It doesn't, and you can't, I won't, and it don't
it hasn't, it isn't, it even ain't, and it shouldn't
it couldn't"
He told him, "No, no, no"
I told him, "Yes, yes, yes"
I said, "I do it all the time
Ain't this boogie a mess"?)*
The poodle bites, the poodle chews it