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apostrofail@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's your funniest professional deformation?10·6 months agoin the ’90s*
in the 2000s*
apostrofail@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What hobbies do you practice that is other people's professions?1·6 months agoSelf-hosting*
apostrofail@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•This fucking bot is still out there messagingEnglish4·7 months agoDoubt
20 years with Fx*
Fx* has been getting worse
in the late ’90s*
the early ’90s*
an interface from the ’00s*
apostrofail@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you had to choose one superpower that you could never turn off, what would it be?1·8 months agomore Nazis* get any *more ideas
early ’90s*
that ended in the ’90s*
Errors can give away that a human typed something, but knowing proper grammar, spelling, and syntax of English is totally neutral—if not to be somewhat expected from a native speaker/typer with a lifetime to learn the language they speak (especially if we consider how many Anglophones are monolingual + educated + have access to technology like spell check meaning there is little excuse for not having English mastery).
In my education, I got a public apology from a teacher letting the class know they tried to dig up proof of plagiarism in my persuasive papers, but for the first time proved themself incorrect on a plagiarism hunch. Humans are capable of writing well.
The inconsistent 2 spaces after “LOL.” shows this comment was from a human.
apostrofail@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•WhatsApp running through android-translation-layer (no container!) on Linux desktop12·9 months agoThink of the phrase: about music. “90’s music” would imply music from specifically 90 (probably 1990 where we assume the writer was lazy about the initial apostrophe)—possessive form. “’90s music” uses ’90s as an adjective for the entire decade—and with the preceeding apostrophe makes it clearer 19 is omitted. 1 year versus 10 years as a big difference. Using an apostrophe in the right place clearly removes the ambiguity.
It was an error. It happens, and too many people do it so next time maybe you won’t with a good habit being formed.
😂 got ’em